2018/19 Season April - July 2019 2 •

Join us for a fascinating celebration on 8 June; leading oboist Nicholas Daniel consecrates an entire day to an instrument relatively rarely featured in chamber works but whose contemporary repertoire he has expanded significantly with commissions from leading composers. In 2016, Igor Levit simultaneously won (among others) Director’s two Gramophone Awards – the Instrumental Award as well as Recording of the Year – for his three-CD set of variations, the works he will revisit with us in May Introduction alongside Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH. The American jazz pianist, composer and multimedia performer, Jason Moran, has recorded some 40 albums to date, as a soloist and member of numerous ensembles. Presenting original compositions and jazz standards, he will announce his eclectic May programme from the stage. Founded as long ago as 1975 in Budapest but resident at the University of Boulder, Colorado, since 1983, the long-revered Takács Quartet has maintained a close connection with Wigmore Hall as Associate Artists. They perform two concerts in May including works by Elgar, Haydn, Bartók and Amy Beach. On 10 and 14 May, Sir András Schiff, unquestionably one of today’s leading Bach interpreters, takes on a group of the composer’s keyboard suites published between 1726 and 1730. Students from the Royal Academy of Music’s Song Circle present a recital in April devoted entirely to the songs of Carl Loewe. Loewe performed his songs throughout Germany to great acclaim and was known as the North German Schubert, composing over 500 songs in a great variety of genres. Inspired by the heart-breaking stories of refugees which are never far from the news, vocal ensemble Stile Antico and Dartington Arts commissioned poet Peter Oswald to create texts for Dowland’s instrumental Lachrimae pavans. Based on testimonies from today’s refugees and migrants, these new poems about displacement and exile present a contemporary and deeply moving counterpoint to this exquisite music in a concert in June, all interspersed by improvised oud music from London-based Syrian musician Rihab Azar. The Armenian-American pianist Sergei Babayan offers an all-Chopin programme in June, featuring the characteristically Polish form of the mazurka in the second half and the first consisting of popular individual pieces. Hervé Niquet, the founder-director of Le Concert Spirituel, one of Europe’s most durable and expert period-instrument ensembles, leads a programme in July that simulates the musical experience of the Mass in the time of Mozart and Haydn. Solomon’s Knot makes its debut at Wigmore Hall in April with a rarely heard version of a familiar favourite; fans of the Bach Johannes-Passion unfamiliar with the 1725 version will have the pleasure of seeing (or hearing!) an old friend in a new light. Please join us for two celebrations, with the JACK Quartet performing the complete Elliot Carter quartets in April and the Jerusalem Quartet presenting the complete Bella Bartók quartets the following month, both bound to be highlights of the season as it comes to an end. • 3

Contents

At a Glance 4 Calendar 8 April 10 May 33 June 59 July 85 Contemporary Music Series 104 Booking Information 108 At a Glance April - July 2019

See pages 10-103 for full details of these concerts and page 108 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… Emanuel Ax 70th birthday concert 82 Chamber Music Season Benjamin Beilman/Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 10 La Nuova Musica/Christine Rice 83 Sat 6 Apr JACK Quartet 16 Louis Schwizgebel Evgeny Kissin 84 Tue 9 Apr The Chamber Music 17 Royal Academy of Music Song Circle 12 Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works 91 Society of Lincoln Center London Handel Orchestra 14 Max Emanuel Cenčić/ 92 Wed 10 Apr Escher String Quartet 17 JACK Quartet: Complete Elliot Carter 16 Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu/ Fri 12 Apr Nash Ensemble: 18 String Quartets Franck-Emmanuel Comte Nash Inventions Christina Landshamer/Gerold Huber 15 Vox Luminis Residency 95 Tue 23 Apr Steven Isserlis/ 26 Janine Jansen/Arisa Fujita American Series: Escher String Quartet 17 Mozart and the 2nd Viennese School 94 Amihai Grosz/Connie Shih Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper 17 Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss 96 Sat 27 Apr Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ 30 Kian Soltani/Aaron Pilsan 97 Nash Inventions – Focus on 18 Reto Bieri/Polina Leschenko Sir Harrison Birtwistle Brahms Plus Series 99 Mon 29 Apr Hagen Quartet 32 Ian Bostridge: Schubert Cycles 19, 23, 86, 87 Lana Trotovsek/Maria Canyigueral 101 Wed 1 May Pekka Kuusisto/ 33 Solomon's Knot 20 Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis 100 Prof Dr Erik Scherder/ The Sixteen 22 Sir Simon Keenlyside/Howard McGill/ 103 Jukka Huitila Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 25 Gordon Campbell/Richard Pryce/ Thu 2 May Notos Quartett 34 Pavel Haas Quartet 27 Matthew Regan/Mike Smith Sat 4 May In Focus: 38 Ensemble Correspondances Residency 27 Le Concert Spirituel 102 Sir George Benjamin Fauré/Schumann Project 26, 73, 74 Final concert of the season: 103 Wed 8 May Jerusalem Quartet 44 Chiaroscuro Quartet Schumann Song Series 28 Thu 9 May Jerusalem Quartet 44 The Orlando Consort 29 Sat 11 May Steven Osborne/ 41 Alban Gerhardt Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Reto Bieri/ 30 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 13 May Håkan Hardenberger/ 43 Polina Leschenko Mon 1 Apr Benjamin Beilman/ 10 Roland Pöntinen Louis Lortie 31 Narek Hakhnazaryan/ Louis Schwizgebel Wed 15 May Takács Quartet 48 Pekka Kuusisto Residency 33 Mon 8 Apr Katarina Karnéus/ 15 Thu 16 May YCAT Public Final 45 Piotr Anderszewski 34 Julius Drake Auditions 2019 In Focus: Sir George Benjamin 38 Mon 15 Apr Tabea Zimmermann/ 23 Fri 17 May Takács Quartet/ 48 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 40 Adam Walker/ Garrick Ohlsson Ravel Song Series 42 Agnès Clément Sun 19 May Royal Academy of Music 49 Jerusalem Quartet: The Complete 44 Mon 22 Apr Pavel Haas Quartet 27 Soloists/Thomas Gould Bartók String Quartets Mon 29 Apr Julian Prégardien/ 32 Mon 20 May Henning Kraggerud/ 51 Sir András Schiff 45, 46 Eric Le Sage Adrian Brendel/ Imogen Cooper Sumi Jo 41 Mon 6 May The King's Singers 39 Tue 21 May Castalian Quartet/ 51 Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen 43 Mon 13 May Gould Piano Trio 43 Anthony Marwood/ Takács Quartet Associate Artists 48 Mon 20 May Andreas Haefliger 49 Aleksandar Madžar Igor Levit: Variations 52, 53, 54, 56 Mon 27 May Kuss Quartet 56 Thu 23 May Elias String Quartet 53 Schumann String Quartet Series 53 Mon 3 Jun Ilya Gringolts/ 61 Sat 25 May Piatti Quartet 54 Robin Tritschler The Seasons 55 Peter Laul Sat 25 May Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 54 Till Fellner 60 Mon 10 Jun Jean Rondeau 69 Pavel Kolesnikov Katya Apekisheva 64 Mon 17 Jun Nicolas Altstaedt 74 Wed 29 May The Endellion String Quartet 57 Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day 65, 66-67 Mon 24 Jun Christopher Maltman/ 81 Thu 30 May Hilary Hahn 59 Stile Antico/Rihab Azar 68 Graham Johnson Mon 3 Jun Doric String Quartet/ 61 Jonathan Biss Isabelle Faust/Jean-Guihen Queyras/ 71 Mon 1 Jul Colin Currie Quartet 85 Alexander Melnikov Mon 8 Jul Imogen Cooper 89 Sat 8 Jun Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day 66-67 Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 73 Mon 15 Jul István Várdai/ 96 Mon 10 Jun Pavel Haas Quartet/ 69 Enno Senft/Boris Giltburg Sergei Babayan 72 Sunwook Kim Fri 14 Jun Isabelle Faust/ 71 The Cardinall's Musick 79 Jean-Guihen Queyras/ Alexander Melnikov Residency 79 Alexander Melnikov Chineke! Orchestra 76 Sun 16 Jun Steven Isserlis/ 74 Franz-Josef Selig/Gerold Huber 78 Anthony Marwood/Irène Duval/ Matthias Goerne 80, 83 Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/ Dénes Várjon/Izabella Simon Ensemble Marsyas 81 wigmore-hall.org.uk • 5

Mon 17 Jun Cuarteto Casals/ 74 Thu 25 Apr The Orlando Consort 29 Song Recital Series Alban Gerhardt Sat 4 May Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 40 Mon 1 Apr Ekaterina Semenchuk/ 11 Fri 21 Jun Alexander Rudin/ 79 Tue 28 May L'Arpeggiata 56 Semyon Skigin Alexander Melnikov Fri 7 Jun Cinquecento/Nicholas Todd 65 Tue 2 Apr Royal Academy of Music 12 Tue 25 Jun Emanuel Ax/ 82 Song Circle Tue 11 Jun The English Concert 70 Sir Simon Keenlyside/ Thu 4 Apr Matthew Rose/Tom Poster 11 Dover Quartet Wed 12 Jun Stile Antico/Rihab Azar 68 Sun 7 Apr Milan Siljanov/ 13 Thu 20 Jun 79 Sat 6 Jul Xavier Phillips/ 88 The Cardinall's Musick Nino Chokhonelidze François-Frédéric Guy Mon 24 Jun Ensemble Marsyas 81 Mon 8 Apr Christina Landshamer/ 15 Sun 7 Jul Wihan Quartet 89 Thu 27 Jun La Nuova Musica/ 83 Gerold Huber Wed 10 Jul Benjamin Beilman/ 91 Christine Rice Thu 11 Apr Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper 17 Louis Schwizgebel Mon 1 Jul Rachel Podger/ 86 Sat 13 Apr Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini 19 Fri 12 Jul Silesian String Quartet 93 Brecon Baroque/ Sun 14 Apr Gavan Ring/Simon Lepper 21 Marcin Świątkiewicz/ Wed 17 Jul Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss 96 Mon 15 Apr Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini 23 Daniele Caminiti Fri 19 Jul Kian Soltani/Aaron Pilsan 97 Wed 24 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards 29 Mon 8 Jul The Mozartists/ 89 Mon 22 Jul Lana Trotovsek/ 101 Semi-Final Ian Page/Louise Alder/ Maria Canyigueral Wed 24 Apr Dame Sarah Connolly/ 28 Katy Bircher/Oliver Wass/ Robin Tritschler/Malcolm Martineau Gavin Edwards Fri 26 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final 29 Sunday Morning Concerts Tue 9 Jul Mahan Esfahani 91 Tue 30 Apr Marcus Farnsworth/ 33 Sun 7 Apr Tesla Quartet 13 Thu 11 Jul Max Emanuel Cenčić/ 92 James Baillieu Sun 14 Apr 21 Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu/ Alexandra Dariescu Sun 5 May Paula Murrihy/ 35 Franck-Emmanuel Comte Sun 21 Apr Kelemen Quartet 25 Malcolm Martineau Sun 28 Apr Ning Feng/Yukako Morikawa 31 Sat 13 Jul Vox Luminis 95 Mon 6 May Clara Mouriz/ 42 Sun 5 May Jan Vogler/Antti Siirala 35 Sat 27 Jul Le Concert Spirituel 102 Roderick Williams/Adam Walker/ Sun 12 May Castalian Quartet 43 Guy Johnston/Joseph Middleton Sun 12 May Sumi Jo/Gary Matthewman/ 41 Sun 19 May Jonathan Plowright 49 London Pianoforte Series Krzysztof Meisinger Sun 26 May Sheku Kanneh-Mason/ Sun 7 Apr Louis Schwizgebel 15 Sat 18 May Ema Nikolovska/Dylan Perez 47 Isata Kanneh-Mason 55 Sun 14 Apr Lise de la Salle 21 Sun 26 May Jacques Imbrailo/ 55 Sun 2 Jun Daniel Pioro/ 60 Alisdair Hogarth Roderick Chadwick/ Thu 18 Apr Angela Hewitt 25 Charlotte Bonneton/ Sun 28 Apr Louis Lortie 31 Sun 26 May Robin Tritschler/Simon Lepper 55 Sun 2 Jun 60 Clare O’Connell Fri 3 May Piotr Anderszewski 34 Graham Johnson Songmakers' Almanac Sun 9 Jun Hugo Wolf Quartett 69 Sun 5 May Aaron Pilsan 39 Tue 4 Jun Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius 63 Sun 16 Jun Heath Quartet 73 Tue 7 May Andreas Staier 39 Wed 5 Jun Maximilian Schmitt/ 63 Sun 23 Jun Andrew Tyson 81 Fri 10 May Sir András Schiff 46 Gerold Huber Sun 30 Jun Vision String Quartet 85 Tue 14 May Sir András Schiff 45 Sat 15 Jun Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 73 Sun 7 Jul Smetana Trio 88 Wed 22 May Igor Levit 52 Wed 19 Jun Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala 75 Sun 14 Jul Maxim Bernard 95 Fri 24 May Igor Levit 54 Sat 22 Jun Franz-Josef Selig/ 78 Sun 21 Jul Calidore String Quartet 99 Gerold Huber Mon 27 May Igor Levit 56 Sun 28 Jul Chiaroscuro Quartet 103 Sun 23 Jun Matthias Goerne/ 80 Sat 1 Jun Till Fellner 60 Sir Antonio Pappano Thu 6 Jun Katya Apekisheva 64 Wed 26 Jun Matthias Goerne/ 83 Early Music and Baroque Series Thu 13 Jun Angela Hewitt 70 Alexander Schmalcz Wed 3 Apr London Handel Orchestra/ 14 Tue 18 Jun Sergei Babayan 72 Tue 2 Jul Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 86 Anna Dennis/Anna Huntley/ Wed 3 Jul Brett Polegato/Iain Burnside 87 Edward Grint Fri 21 Jun Alexander Rudin/ 79 Alexander Melnikov Thu 4 Jul Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 87 Fri 5 Apr Arcangelo/Emőke Baráth/ 13 Thu 18 Jul 97 Anna Reinhold/Callum Thorpe Fri 28 Jun Alice Sara Ott 83 Werner Güra/Christoph Berner Tue 23 Jul Dame Sarah Connolly/ 101 Tue 16 Apr Solomon's Knot 20 Sat 29 Jun Evgeny Kissin 84 Malcolm Martineau Wed 17 Apr The Sixteen/ 22 Fri 5 Jul Lucas Debargue 87 Wed 24 Jul Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis 100 Harry Christophers/ Tue 16 Jul Elisabeth Leonskaja 94 Michael Pennington Fri 26 Jul Sir Simon Keenlyside/ 103 Sat 20 Jul Ronald Brautigam 98 Howard McGill/Gordon Campbell/ Sat 20 Apr 25 Trio Mediæval Sun 21 Jul Jonathan Plowright 99 Richard Pryce/Matthew Regan/ Mon 22 Apr Ensemble Correspondances/ 27 Thu 25 Jul Kit Armstrong 101 Mike Smith Sébastien Daucé/ We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential Sophie Karthäuser additional support for our expanded vocal series 6 • Box Office: 020 7935 2141 At a Glance April - July 2019 £5 TICKETS

Jazz Series Wed 29 May The Endellion String Quartet 57 Thu 13 Jun For Crying Out Loud! 70 UNDER 35s Fri 31 May Jason Moran 58 Sat 8 June Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day 66 Thu 13 Jun Introduction to Music: 65 Second Viennese School Sun 14 Jul Django Bates Belovèd/ 95 Fri 14 Jun Viktoria Mullova 71 Evan Parker Sat 15 Jun Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 73 Sat 15 Jun Relaxed Concert: 71 Bloomsbury Quartet Fri 26 Jul Sir Simon Keenlyside/ 103 Mon 17 Jun Nicolas Altstaedt 74 Discover Tue 18 Jun Leeds Lieder Young 77 Howard McGill/ Wed 19 Jun Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala 75 Gordon Campbell/Richard Pryce/ Artists Masterclass Fri 21 Jun Chineke! Orchestra 76 Classical Music Matthew Regan/Mike Smith Tue 18 Jun Bechstein Sessions: 77 Fri 28 Jun Sean Shibe’s softLOUD 85 BirdWorld at Wigmore Hall Wigmore Lates Mon 1 Jul Colin Currie Quartet 85 Thu 20 Jun Schools Concert: 77 Fri 3 May Anne Sofie von Otter/ 35 Wed 3 Jul Brett Polegato/Iain Burnside 87 Glitter Bird Bengt Forsberg Fri 12 Jul Adam Walker/Sean Shibe 93 Thu 20 Jun Introduction to Music: 65 Fri 31 May Amaan Ali Bangash/ 59 Wed 17 Jul Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss 96 Second Viennese School Ayaan Ali Bangash/ Fri 19 Jul Susan Bullock/Richard Sisson 98 Sat 22 Jun CAVATINA Family Concert: 79 Jennifer Pike Thorne Trio The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Fri 14 Jun Viktoria Mullova 71 Thu 27 Jun Introduction to Music: 65 Fri 21 Jun Chineke! Orchestra 76 Second Viennese School Fri 28 Jun Sean Shibe’s softLOUD 85 Wed 3 Jul Chamber Tots: 86 Wigmore Hall Learning Fri 12 Jul Adam Walker/Sean Shibe 93 Rivers and Jungles Thu 4 Apr Chamber Tots: Train Ride 11 Fri 19 Jul Susan Bullock/ 98 Thu 11 Jul Pre-Concert Talk 93 Richard Sisson Sat 6 Apr Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk 16 Wed 17 Jul Bloomsbury Quartet 96 Fri 12 Apr Music for the Moment 19 The Wigmore Lates Series is supported by Thu 18 Jul Music for the Moment 97 The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Wed 17 Apr Chamber Tots: In the Garden 23 Sat 20 Jul Come and Sing: 98 Sat 27 Apr Family Day: Wild River 29 Sounds of America Contemporary Music Series Adventures Thu 4 Apr Matthew Rose/Tom Poster 11 Mon 29 Apr Wigmore Study Group: 32 Ravel Sat 6 Apr JACK Quartet 16 Thu 2 May Wigmore Study Group: 32 Tue 9 Apr The Chamber Music Society 17 Ravel of Lincoln Center Mon 6 May Wigmore Study Group: 32 Wed 10 Apr Escher String Quartet 17 Ravel Fri 12 Apr Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth/ 18 Sat 11 May Sumi Jo Masterclass 41 Simone Leona Hueber Wed 15 May For Crying Out Loud! 45 Sun 14 Apr Gavan Ring/Simon Lepper 21 Fri 17 May Schools Concert: Heroes 47 Mon 15 Apr Tabea Zimmermann/ 23 and Villains Adam Walker/Agnès Clément Sat 18 May Family Concert: Heroes 47 Sat 20 Apr Trio Mediæval 25 and Villains Sat 27 Apr Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ 30 Wed 22 May Chamber Tots: In the Garden 51 Reto Bieri/Polina Leschenko Thu 23 May Voiceworks 53 Tue 30 Apr Marcus Farnsworth/ 33 James Baillieu Fri 24 May Artists in Conversation: 53 Igor Levit Sat 4 May In Focus: Sir George Benjamin 38 Wed 29 May RNIB Study Day 57 Mon 6 May The King’s Singers 39 Thu 30 May György Pauk Masterclass 57 Mon 13 May Håkan Hardenberger/ 43 Front cover images Sat 1 Jun RNIB Family Day 59 Roland Pöntinen Left side Sat 18 May Ema Nikolovska/Dylan Perez 47 Tue 4 Jun Singing with Friends: 61 Sean Shibe © Kaupo Kikkas Anne Sofie von Otter© Mats Bäcker TO BOOK £5 TICKETS VISIT: Come and Sing Thu 23 May Elias String Quartet 53 Emanuel Ax © Lisa Marie Mazzucco Thu 6 Jun Chamber Tots: Train Ride 63 Alice Sarah Ott © Jonas Becker wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35 Fri 24 May Igor Levit 54 Sheku Kanneh-Mason © Lars Borges Thu 6 Jun Introduction to Music: 65 Sat 25 May Piatti Quartet 54 Right side Second Viennese School Rachel Podger © Theresa Pewal Mon 27 May Kuss Quartet 56 Matthias Goerne © Caroline de Bon Fri 7 Jun Nicholas Daniel Masterclass 65 Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marco Borggreve Mon 27 May Igor Levit 56 Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence Hilary Hahn © Dana van Leeuwen Decca £5 TICKETS UNDER 35s

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April May Mon 1 Apr 1.00pm Benjamin Beilman/Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 10 Wed 1 May 7.30pm Pekka Kuusisto/ 33 Louis Schwizgebel Prof Dr Erik Scherder/Jukka Huitila 7.30pm Ekaterina Semenchuk/Semyon Skigin 11 Thu 2 May 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Ravel 32 Tue 2 Apr 7.30pm Royal Academy of Music Song Circle 12 7.30pm Notos Quartett 34 Wed 3 Apr 7.30pm London Handel Orchestra/Anna Dennis/ 14 Fri 3 May 7.00pm Piotr Anderszewski 34 Anna Huntley/Edward Grint 10.00pm Anne Sofie von Otter/Bengt Forsberg 35 Thu 4 Apr 10.15am Chamber Tots: Train Ride 11 Sat 4 May 10.30am In Focus: Sir George Benjamin – 38 11.45am Chamber Tots: Train Ride 11 RNCM Soloists 7.30pm Matthew Rose/Tom Poster 11 12 noon In Focus: Sir George Benjamin – 38 Fri 5 Apr 7.30pm Arcangelo/Emőke Baráth/ 13 In Conversation Anna Reinhold/Callum Thorpe 2.00pm In Focus: Sir George Benjamin – 38 RNCM New Ensemble/Callum Smart Sat 6 Apr 1.00pm JACK Quartet 16 7.30pm Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 40 6.00pm Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk 16 Sun 5 May 11.30am 35 7.30pm JACK Quartet 16 Jan Vogler/Antti Siirala 3.00pm Paula Murrihy/Malcolm Martineau 35 Sun 7 Apr 11.30am Tesla Quartet 13 7.30pm Aaron Pilsan 39 3.00pm Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze 13 Mon 6 May 1.00pm The King's Singers 39 7.30pm Louis Schwizgebel 15 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Ravel 32 Mon 8 Apr 1.00pm Katarina Karnéus/Julius Drake 15 7.30pm Clara Mouriz/Roderick Williams/ 42 7.30pm Christina Landshamer/Gerold Huber 15 Adam Walker/Guy Johnston/Joseph Middleton Tue 9 Apr 7.30pm The Chamber Music Society of 17 Tue 7 May 7.30pm Andreas Staier 39 Lincoln Center Wed 8 May 7.30pm Jerusalem Quartet 44 Wed 10 Apr 7.30pm 17 Escher String Quartet Thu 9 May 7.30pm Jerusalem Quartet 44 Thu 11 Apr 7.30pm Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper 17 Fri 10 May 7.00pm Sir András Schiff 46 Fri 12 Apr 3.00pm Music for the Moment 19 Sat 11 May 1.00pm Sumi Jo Masterclass 41 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 18 7.30pm Alban Gerhardt/Steven Osborne 41 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth/ 18 Simone Leona Hueber Sun 12 May 11.30am Castalian Quartet 43 3.00pm Sumi Jo/Gary Matthewman/ 41 Sat 13 Apr 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini 19 Krzysztof Meisinger Sun 14 Apr 11.30am Alexandra Dariescu 21 Mon 13 May 1.00pm Gould Piano Trio 43 3.00pm Gavan Ring/Simon Lepper 21 7.30pm Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen 43 7.30pm Lise de la Salle 21 Tue 14 May 7.00pm Sir András Schiff 45 Mon 15 Apr 1.00pm Tabea Zimmerman/Adam Walker/ 23 Wed 15 May 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 45 Agnès Clément 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 45 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini 23 7.30pm Takács Quartet 48 Tue 16 Apr 7.00pm Solomon's Knot 20 Thu 16 May 3.00pm YCAT Public Final Auditions 2019 45 Wed 17 Apr 10.15am Chamber Tots: In the Garden 23 7.00pm YCAT Public Final Auditions 2019 45 11.45am 23 Chamber Tots: In the Garden Fri 17 May 11.00am Schools Concert: Heroes and Villains 47 7.30pm 22 The Sixteen/Harry Christophers/ 7.30pm Takács Quartet/Garrick Ohlsson 48 Michael Pennington Sat 18 May 11.00am Family Concert: Heroes and Villains 47 Thu 18 Apr 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 25 7.30pm Ema Nikolovska/Dylan Perez 47 Sat 20 Apr 7.30pm Trio Mediæval 25 Sun 19 May 11.30am Jonathan Plowright 49 Sun 21 Apr 11.30am Kelemen Quartet 25 7.30pm Royal Academy of Music Soloists/ 49 Mon 22 Apr 1.00pm Pavel Haas Quartet 27 Thomas Gould 7.30pm Ensemble Correspondances/ 27 Mon 20 May 1.00pm Andreas Haefliger 49 Sébastien Daucé/Sophie Karthäuser 7.30pm Henning Kraggerud/Adrian Brendel/ 51 Tue 23 Apr 7.30pm Steven Isserlis/Janine Jansen/ 26 Imogen Cooper Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz/Connie Shih Tue 21 May 7.30pm Castalian Quartet/Anthony Marwood/ 51 Wed 24 Apr 1.30pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards Semi-Final 29 Aleksandar Madžar 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/Robin Tritschler/ 28 Wed 22 May 10.15am Chamber Tots: In the Garden 51 Malcolm Martineau 11.45am Chamber Tots: In the Garden 51 Thu 25 Apr 7.30pm The Orlando Consort 29 7.30pm Igor Levit 52 Fri 26 Apr 6.00pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final 29 Thu 23 May 1.00pm Voiceworks 53 7.30pm Elias String Quartet 53 Sat 27 Apr 10.30am Family Day: Wild River Adventures 29 7.30pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Reto Bieri/ 30 Fri 24 May 6.00pm Artists in Conversation: Igor Levit 53 Polina Leschenko 7.30pm Igor Levit 54 Sat 25 May 1.00pm 54 Sun 28 Apr 11.30am Ning Feng/Yukako Morikawa 31 Piatti Quartet 7.30pm 54 6.30pm Louis Lortie 31 Narek Hakhnazaryan/Pavel Kolesnikov Sun 26 May 11.30am Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Isata Kanneh-Mason 55 Mon 29 Apr 1.00pm Julian Prégardien/Eric Le Sage 32 3.00pm Jacques Imbrailo/Alisdair Hogarth 55 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Ravel 32 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Simon Lepper 55 7.30pm Hagen Quartet 32 Mon 27 May 1.00pm Kuss Quartet 56 Tue 30 Apr 7.30pm Marcus Farnsworth/James Baillieu 33 7.30pm Igor Levit 56 wigmore-hall.org.uk • 9

Tue 28 May 7.30pm L'Arpeggiata 56 Sun 23 Jun 11.30am Andrew Tyson 81 Wed 29 May 11.00am RNIB Study Day 57 7.30pm Matthias Goerne/Sir Antonio Pappano 80 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet 57 Mon 24 Jun 1.00pm Christopher Maltman/Graham Johnson 81 Thu 30 May 1.00pm György Pauk Masterclass 57 7.30pm Ensemble Marsyas 81 7.30pm Hilary Hahn 59 Tue 25 Jun 7.00pm Emanuel Ax/Sir Simon Keenlyside/ 82 Fri 31 May 7.00pm Jason Moran 58 Dover Quartet 10.00pm Amaan Ali Bangash/ 59 Wed 26 Jun 7.30pm Matthias Goerne/Alexander Schmalcz 83 Ayaan Ali Bangash/Jennifer Pike Thu 27 Jun 4.45pm Introduction to Music: 65 Second Viennese School June 7.30pm La Nuova Musica/Christine Rice 83 Sat 1 Jun 11.00am RNIB Family Day 59 Fri 28 Jun 7.00pm Alice Sara Ott 83 7.30pm Till Fellner 60 10.00pm Sean Shibe 85 Sun 2 Jun 11.30am Daniel Pioro/Roderick Chadwick/ 60 Sat 29 Jun 7.30pm Evgeny Kissin 84 Charlotte Bonneton/Clare O’Connell Sun 30 Jun 11.30am Vision String Quartet 85 7.30pm Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac 60 Mon 3 Jun 1.00pm Ilya Gringolts/Peter Laul 61 July 7.30pm Doric String Quartet/Jonathan Biss 61 Mon 1 Jul 1.00pm Colin Currie Quartet 85 Tue 4 Jun 10.30am Come and Sing 61 7.30pm Rachel Podger/Brecon Baroque/ 86 7.30pm Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius 63 Marcin Świątkiewicz/Daniele Caminiti Wed 5 Jun 7.30pm Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber 63 Tue 2 Jul 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 86 Thu 6 Jun 10.15am Chamber Tots: Train Ride 63 Wed 3 Jul 12.30pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles 86 11.45am Chamber Tots: Train Ride 63 2.00pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles 86 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School 65 7.30pm Brett Polegato/Iain Burnside 87 7.30pm Katya Apekisheva 64 Thu 4 Jul 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 87 Fri 7 Jun 1.00pm Nicholas Daniel Masterclass 65 Fri 5 Jul 7.00pm 87 7.30pm Cinquecento/Nicholas Todd 65 Lucas Debargue Sat 6 Jul 7.30pm 88 Sat 8 Jun 11.30am Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day: 67 Xavier Phillips/François-Frédéric Guy Nicholas Daniel/Lucy Wakeford/ Sun 7 Jul 11.30am Smetana Trio 88 Wigmore Oboe-Fest Ensemble 7.30pm Wihan Quartet 89 3.00pm Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day: 67 Mon 8 Jul 1.00pm Imogen Cooper 89 Nicholas Daniel/Julius Drake/ 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 89 Guildhall School Wind Quintet 7.30pm The Mozartists/Ian Page/Louise Alder/ 89 7.30pm Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day: Nicholas Daniel/ 67 Katy Bircher/Oliver Wass/Gavin Edwards Tom Owen/Kyeong Ham/Amy Harman/ Tue 9 Jul 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 91 Jacqueline Shave/Timothy Ridout/ Guy Johnston/Martin Owen/Maggie Cole Wed 10 Jul 7.30pm Benjamin Beilman/Louis Schwizgebel 91 Sun 9 Jun 11.30am Hugo Wolf Quartett 69 Thu 11 Jul 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 93 7.30pm Max Emanuel Cenčić/Le Concert 92 Mon 10 Jun 1.00pm 69 Jean Rondeau de l’Hostel Dieu/Franck-Emmanuel Comte 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet/Enno Senft/ 69 Boris Giltburg Fri 12 Jul 7.00pm Silesian String Quartet 93 10.00pm Adam Walker/Sean Shibe 93 Tue 11 Jun 7.30pm The English Concert 70 Sat 13 Jul 7.30pm Vox Luminis 95 Wed 12 Jun 7.30pm Stile Antico/Rihab Azar 68 Sun 14 Jul 11.30am Maxim Bernard 95 Thu 13 Jun 11.00am 70 For Crying Out Loud! 7.30pm Django Bates Belovèd/Evan Parker 95 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 70 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School 65 Mon 15 Jul 1.00pm István Várdai/Sunwook Kim 96 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 70 Tue 16 Jul 7.30pm Elisabeth Leonskaja 94 Fri 14 Jun 7.00pm Isabelle Faust/Jean-Guihen Queyras/ 71 Wed 17 Jul 5.30pm Bloomsbury Quartet 96 Alexander Melnikov 7.30pm Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss 96 10.00pm Viktoria Mullova 71 Thu 18 Jul 3.00pm Music for the Moment 97 Sat 15 Jun 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Bloomsbury Quartet 71 7.30pm Werner Güra/Christoph Berner 97 7.30pm Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 73 Fri 19 Jul 7.00pm Kian Soltani/Aaron Pilsan 97 Sun 16 Jun 11.30am Heath Quartet 73 10.00pm Susan Bullock/Richard Sisson 98 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 73 Sat 20 Jul 10.00am Come and Sing: Sounds of America 98 7.30pm Steven Isserlis/Anthony Marwood/ 74 7.30pm Ronald Brautigam 98 Irène Duval/Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/ Sun 21 Jul 11.30am Calidore String Quartet 99 Dénes Várjon/Izabella Simon 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright 99 Mon 17 Jun 1.00pm Nicolas Altstaedt 74 Mon 22 Jul 7.30pm Lana Trotovsek/Maria Canyigueral 101 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals/Alban Gerhardt 74 Tue 23 Jul 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau 101 Tue 18 Jun 1.00pm Leeds Lieder Young Artists Masterclass 77 6.15pm Bechstein Sessions: BirdWorld 77 Wed 24 Jul 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis 100 7.30pm Sergei Babayan 72 Thu 25 Jul 7.30pm Kit Armstrong 101 Wed 19 Jun 7.00pm Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala 75 Fri 26 Jul 7.30pm Sir Simon Keenlyside/Howard McGill/ 103 Thu 20 Jun 11.00am Schools Concert: Glitter Bird 77 Gordon Campbell/Richard Pryce/ 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School 65 Matthew Regan/Mike Smith 7.30pm The Cardinall's Musick 79 Sat 27 Jul 7.30pm Le Concert Spirituel 102 Fri 21 Jun 7.00pm Alexander Rudin/Alexander Melnikov 79 Sun 28 Jul 11.30am Chiaroscuro Quartet 103 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra 76 Sat 22 Jun 11.00am CAVATINA Family Concert: Thorne Trio 79 7.30pm Franz-Josef Selig/Gerold Huber 78 10 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 1 April 1.00pm Benjamin Beilman violin Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Louis Schwizgebel piano Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Rachmaninov Vocalise (arr. Gayane Hakhnazaryan for piano trio) Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Op. 8

Three rising star young musicians – American violinist Benjamin Beilman, Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan and Swiss-Chinese pianist Louis Schwizgebel – come together to perform two classics of the piano trio repertoire, plus Rachmaninov’s Vocalise, arranged by Hakhnazaryan’s pianist mother, Gayane.

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Monday 1 April Thursday 4 April Thursday 4 April 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk Chamber Tots: Matthew Rose bass mezzo-soprano Train Ride Tom Poster piano Semyon Skigin piano Schubert Strophe aus ‘Die Glinka A Farewell to Saint Petersburg Interactive music-making sessions Götter Griechenlands’; Fahrt Musorgsky Sunless; The Peep-Show for children aged 1 to 5 and their zum Hades; Lied eines Schiffers parents or carers, with songs, an die Dioskuren; Im Abendrot; The leading mezzo-soprano joins percussion and the chance to Wandrers Nachtlied II with a pianist widely acclaimed meet some exciting instruments Schubert Impromptu in E flat as one of the world’s leading up close. Presented by music D899 No. 2 accompanists for a programme leaders Esther Sheridan and Liszt Impromptu (Nocturne) S191 of songs from their Russian Lucy Drever alongside emerging Liszt Gebet; Über allen Gipfeln ist homeland, with major cycles by chamber ensembles. Ruh; Gastibelza Glinka, progenitor of the nationalist Musorgsky Songs and Dances of group The Five, and his follower 10.15am – 11.15am (1–2 year-olds) Death Musorgsky. 11.45am – 12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) Musorgsky Impromptu passionné Tom Poster Songs (world première) £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Children £7 Adults £5 Ives 3 Improvisations Ives Ilmenau; The Children’s Hour; Down East; At the River; The Circus Band

First Time Booker Offer Pianist/composer Tom Poster joins New to Family events at with leading bass Matthew Rose Wigmore Hall? Buy your for a diverse programme, including tickets for half price, either piano pieces by each of the by phone or in person. featured composers, Musorgsky’s song cycle setting poems that deal with death, plus a new work of Poster’s own.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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The Songs of Carl Loewe Tuesday 2 April Students from the Royal Academy of Music’s ‘Song Circle’ 7.30pm present a recital of Lieder devoted entirely to the songs of Carl Loewe (1796-1869). Born a year before Schubert and outliving him by more than four decades, Loewe performed Royal Academy of his songs throughout Germany to great acclaim and was Music Song Circle known as the North German Schubert. Greatly admired Frances Gregory mezzo-soprano by Schumann, Liszt, Wolf and Wagner (who preferred his Olivia Warburton mezzo-soprano ‘Erlkönig’ to Schubert’s), he composed over 500 songs in a Kieran Carrel tenor great variety of genres. Paul Grant baritone The students will perform a breadth of Loewe’s repertoire, Thomas Bennett bass from comic gems to celebrated ballads, through lyrical Richard Gowers piano pieces, a song cycle, and much more. Gus Tredwell piano Leo Nicholson piano A whole evening of Loewe Lieder is almost unprecedented, and surtitles will be provided to increase the enjoyment.

£30 £25 £20 £16 £10 Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust RAM Song Circle © Helen Wills WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 13

Friday 5 April Sunday 7 April Sunday 7 April 7.30pm 11.30am 3.00pm

Arcangelo Tesla Quartet Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Jonathan Cohen director, Famous Last Words Nino Chokhonelidze piano harpsichord Beethoven String Quartet in F Brahms 4 Serious Songs Op. 121 Emőke Baráth soprano Op. 135 Finzi Let us garlands bring Op. 18 Villa-Lobos String Quartet No. 17 Duparc Chanson triste; La vie Anna Reinhold mezzo- Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 antérieure soprano Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Callum Thorpe bass-baritone Named after the Serbian- Vivaldi La Senna festeggiante American physicist and futurist Music from Germany, England RV693 Nikola Tesla, the high-profile and – with a nod to its Spanish 11-year-old quartet has created a derivation – France in this Over the last nine years, the early programme of Famous Last Words, programme by the Swiss- music ensemble Arcangelo, under a trio of works written at the end Macedonian bass-baritone and its founder-director Jonathan of each composer’s creative life the Georgian pianist, who together Cohen, has attracted high praise and including the 17th work for won the two top prizes at the 2015 through its recordings and the medium (1957) by the prolific Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation international appearances. Here Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos. International Song Competition. it presents Vivaldi’s large-scale cantata, a celebration of France £16 concs £14 inc. programme All seats £16 and Louis XV. and coffee/sherry/juice With grateful thanks to the Voices at Approximately 1 hour 40 minutes in Wigmore Circle duration, including an interval

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

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Wednesday 3 April Handel Aci, Galatea 7.30pm e Polifemo HWV72 Anna Dennis soprano (as Aci) Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano (as Galatea) Edward Grint bass-baritone (as Polifemo) London Handel Orchestra Adrian Butterfieldconductor

Having staged Handel’s English version of the Acis and Galatea story in 2018, the London Handel Orchestra now presents his earlier Italian version, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, which he wrote in Naples in June 1708 as a celebratory cantata for a wedding. This work is completely different from the 1718 version for the Duke of Chandos and is notable for the variety of Handel’s invention as well as its colourful scoring. All three roles are demanding, but the range required of the bass who sings the part of Polifemo is truly remarkable, covering two and a half octaves!

£45 £42 £40 £35 £25

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Sunday 7 April Monday 8 April Monday 8 April 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Louis Schwizgebel piano Katarina Karnéus mezzo- Christina Landshamer Schubert Allegretto in C minor soprano soprano D915; 4 Impromptus D935 Julius Drake piano Gerold Huber piano Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Robert Schumann Gedichte der Purcell/Britten Sweeter than Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 Roses and other songs Admired across a wide range Alma Mahler Die stille Stadt; Laue Copland From 12 poems of Emily of repertoire, the young pianist Sommernacht; Bei dir ist es traut; Dickinson: Nature, the Gentlest performs Chopin’s set of preludes Der Erkennende Mother, There came a wind in all 24 keys, strikingly diverse in Berg 7 frühe Lieder like a bugle, The world feels character, alongside Schubert’s Herzogin Anna Amalia Das Veilchen dusty, Heart, we will forget him, second set of Impromptus, in Clara Schumann Liebst du um Dear March, Come In!, Sleep is which some commentators detect Schönheit supposed to be, Going to Heaven! a sonata structure underlying the Robert Schumann Widmung from & The Chariot four contrasting individual pieces. Myrthen; Herzeleid; Singet nicht Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 in Trauertönen Songs by Schumann £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 A selection of German Baroque A Wigmore favourite since she Songs won the Cardiff Competition in 1995, the Swedish mezzo includes A lyric soprano with a steadily songs by female composers, rising international reputation among them Clara Schumann includes songs from her homeland (whose 200th anniversary falls from the Baroque and Romantic this year) and Duchess Anna periods, plus Britten’s imaginative Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Purcell realisations and Copland’s (1739-1807). sensitive settings of the reclusive Emily Dickinson. All seats £16 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Complete Elliott Carter String Quartets Saturday 6 April Saturday 6 April 1.00pm 7.30pm

JACK Quartet JACK Quartet Carter String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet No. 1 Carter String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3 Founded in New York in 2005, the JACK Quartet has received exceptional praise for its tireless advocacy In 1960, Carter’s exhilarating Second Quartet won of contemporary music. In these two programmes, it the Pulitzer Prize, his Third matching that success presents the entire sequence of numbered quartets thirteen years later. In the latter, Carter divides by Elliott Carter, who died in 2012 aged 103, the instruments into pairs, giving a sense of what beginning with his first and last works in the genre. he called ‘ever-varying perspectives of feelings, Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without expression, rivalry and cooperation’, while the Fourth an interval is preoccupied with ‘giving every member of the group its own identity’. £16 concs £14 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Saturday 6 April 6.00pm

Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk

Join us for a musically illustrated pre-concert talk with the JACK Quartet ahead of the evening concert. Approximately 45 minutes in duration

£5

JACK Quartet © Shervin Lainez wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 17

American Series Tuesday 9 April Founded in 2005 and currently Thursday 11 April 7.30pm Artists of the Chamber Music 7.30pm Society of Lincoln Center, the New-York based ensemble places The Chamber Music Sally Matthews soprano works from America at the core of Society of Lincoln Center its residency. Simon Lepper piano Tommaso Lonquich clarinet Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48 Arnaud Sussmann violin Wednesday 10 April Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Yura Lee viola 7.30pm Sibelius Demanten på marssnön; Nicholas Canellakis cello Våren flyktar hastigt; Flickan kom Wu Qian piano Escher String Quartet ifrån sin älsklings möte; Var det Beethoven String Trio in D Op. 9 en dröm? Ives String Quartet No. 2 Pfitzner Hast du von den No. 2 Debussy Première rapsodie Andrew Norman New work* Brett Dean New work for clarinet, Fischerkindern das alte Märchen Copland 2 Pieces for string quartet vernommen?; Venus mater violin, cello and piano* (UK Barber String Quartet Op. 11 première) Brahms Piano Quartet Strauss Wiegenlied; Das No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 *Co-commissioned by Tuesday Rosenband; Morgen; Cäcilie Musical Association, Chamber Music *Co-commissioned by The Society of Palm Beach, Chamber The admired Lieder singer Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Music Society of Lincoln Center, draws on song traditions from Center, Wigmore Hall and La Jolla Wigmore Hall, and Aspen Music Scandinavia as well as Germany, Music Society Festival and School taking in examples by the neglected late-Romantic Hans The visiting Chamber Music The programme includes a Pfitzner, who – like Strauss – died Society of Lincoln Center brings newly-commissioned piece by the seventy years ago. the UK première of what promises much-awarded Andrew Norman, to be a major new work – a born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Wigmore co-commission by the 1979, alongside classic works by Australian composer and viola Charles Ives and Samuel Barber, player Brett Dean, whose opera whose First Quartet contains his Hamlet was a hit at Glyndebourne famous and much-arranged Adagio in 2017. for Strings.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Escher String Quartet Sally Matthews © Tristan Cook © Sarah Skinner © Sigtryggur Ari Jóhannsson 18 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nash Inventions Friday 12 April Friday 12 April 6.00pm 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk Nash Ensemble Stefan Asbury conductor Sir Harrison Birtwistle in conversation with the broadcaster and journalist Tom Service. Claire Booth soprano Simone Leona Hueber reciter Free (ticket required) Lawrence Power viola Adrian Brendel cello Ursula Leveaux bassoon Lucy Wakeford harp

Focus on Sir Harrison Birtwistle Sir Harrison Birtwistle Fantasia upon all the notes* Carter Mosaic* Sir Harrison Birtwistle 3 Songs from The Holy Forest; Songs by Myself; Duet for 8 Strings for viola and cello* (world première) Knussen Study for ‘Metamorphosis’ for solo bassoon Sir Harrison Birtwistle (UK première) © Hanya Chlala Sir Harrison Birtwistle The Woman and the Hare* *Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble

The Nash Ensemble’s annual contemporary music showcase features six works by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, with whom the group has enjoyed a long and close association. In addition to two earlier Nash commissions, Fantasia upon all the notes and The Woman and the Hare, they include a new Duo specifically written for the Nash’s violist Lawrence Power and cellist Adrian Brendel. The programme also takes in Elliott Carter’s Mosaic, inspired by memories of the pioneering harpist Carlos Salzedo, and a newly revised piece for solo bassoon by the late Oliver Knussen, originally written as a study for a large-scale project based on the writings of Kafka. Stefan Asbury conducts the ensemble works and the solo soprano is the Nash’s frequent and welcome guest, Claire Booth. This concert is dedicated to the eminent composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, who died in July 2018.

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10 wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 19

Schubert Cycles Friday 12 April One of the finest Lieder singers of our time, Ian Bostridge once 3.00pm – 4.00pm again brings his unique vocal personality and interpretative mastery to one of Schubert’s three great cycles. In each Music for the Moment performance he shares the platform with a different collaborating pianist in performances that will be recorded for digital only release on the Wigmore Hall Live label. If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon Saturday 13 April concert with musicians from the 7.30pm Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea Ian Bostridge tenor and coffee from 2.30pm in the Saskia Giorgini piano Bechstein Room. Schubert Die schöne Müllerin D795 Free (ticket required) Joining the pre-eminent Lieder interpreter for a traversal of the Wigmore Hall is committed to first of Schubert’s great cycles, the Italian-Dutch pianist won the playing its part in building a Salzburg International Mozart Competition in 2016 and made her dementia-friendly society, and is debut at the Musikverein in Vienna the following year. Composed proud to have 3 Dementia Friends in 1823, The Fair Maid of the Mill shows Schubert’s mastery of the Champions and 44 Dementia combination of lyricism with narrative in full flower. Friends on its staff team. To find out more visit dementiafriends.org.uk Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval In partnership with Resonate Arts £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 and the Royal Academy of Music

Concert Repeated

Monday 15 April 7.30pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Tuesday 2 July 2019 and Thursday 4 July 7.30pm with Lars Vogt

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Tuesday 16 April 7.00pm NB time Solomon’s Knot: St John Passion Bach St John Passion BWV245 (2nd version, 1725) Handl Ecce quomodo moritur justus

Solomon’s Knot makes its debut at Wigmore Hall with a rarely heard version of a familiar favourite. The Johannes-Passion of JS Bach exists in four different variants, not all of which are fully reconstructible, and that with which we are most familiar is a combination of these. For his second performance in 1725, just one year after the first, Bach made significant changes: the framing choral pillars of the work were replaced, and key arias, above all for the tenor, were changed. Fans of the Johannes-Passion unfamiliar with the 1725 version will have the pleasure of seeing (or hearing!) an old friend in a new light. Solomon’s Knot will also perform the motet that was sung after every Passion performance in Leipzig, ‘Ecce quomodo moritur justus’ by Jacob Handl. With its small forces, no conductor, and memorised performances, Solomon’s Knot is giving its beloved 17th- and 18th-century repertoire a ‘serious kick up the baroque backside’ (365Bristol). Approximately 2 hours 15 minutes, including an interval

Solomon’s Knot £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 © Gerard Collett wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 21

Sunday 14 April Sunday 14 April Sunday 14 April 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Alexandra Dariescu piano Gavan Ring baritone Lise de la Salle piano Debussy Estampes Simon Lepper piano Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397; Tailleferre Romance; Pastorale; Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Rondo in D K485; Rondo in Impromptu; Larghetto; Valse lente Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel A minor K511; Variations on ‘Ah L Boulanger Prelude in D flat; vous dirai-je, maman’ K265 Seóirse Bodley Stróll; Do 3 Morceaux pour piano bhádhasa Uair; Cré; Paidir I Fauré Barcarolles: No. 4 in A flat Messiaen Préludes: No. 1 ‘La Harty A Mayo Love Song Op. 44, No. 5 in F sharp minor colombe’, No. 7 ‘Plainte calme’ & Larchet The Philosophy of Love Op. 66 & No. 6 in E flat Op. 70 No. 8 ‘Un reflet dans le vent’ Chopin Nocturnes: in D flat Fauré Préludes: in G minor Op. 27 No. 2, in F Op. 15 No. 1 & Winning plaudits everywhere he Op. 103 No. 3 & in F Op. 103 in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 sings, baritone Gavan Ring joins No. 4 Prokofiev 10 Pieces from Romeo with Simon Lepper to perform Debussy L’isle joyeuse and Juliet Op. 75 music from his homeland in the shape of works by Hamilton In 2017, the Romanian-born British Harty, John Francis Larchet The French pianist returns to pianist made a splash with her (1884-1967) and Seóirse Bodley Wigmore Hall in a classical-to- innovative performance piece The (born 1933), all influenced by Irish modern programme that includes Nutcracker and I. A current focus traditional music. Chopin’s luminous nocturnes and is women composers, notably the Fauré’s substantial barcarolles prodigious Lili Boulanger and Les alongside Prokofiev’s self- All seats £16 Six member Germaine Tailleferre. arranged ballet score. Supported by Frances and David Waters £16 concs £14 inc. programme £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 and coffee/sherry/juice Solomon’s Knot: St John Passion

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Wednesday 17 April Music from the Chapel Royal with excerpts 7.30pm from Pepys’ diary Cooke O Lord, thou hast searched me out Blow In the time of trouble Humfrey Lord, I have sinned The Sixteen Blow Salvator mundi Corbetta Preludio and Chiacona Humfrey O Lord my God; By the waters of Harry Christophers Babylon conductor Pepys/Morelli Beauty retire Cooke Put me not to rebuke Humfrey Wilt thou forgive that sin (A Hymne to God the Father) Michael Pennington Humfrey/Blow/Turner I will alway give narrator thanks (The ‘Club’ Anthem) In its 40th anniversary season, the ensemble celebrates the group of young composers who revivified the Chapel Royal at Charles II’s Restoration, adding a contemporary commentary from Samuel Pepys.

The Sixteen © Molina visuals £60 £50 £40 £30 £18 wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 23

Schubert Cycles Monday 15 April Monday 15 April Wednesday 17 April 1.00pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Tabea Zimmermann viola Ian Bostridge tenor Chamber Tots: Adam Walker flute Saskia Giorgini piano In the Garden Agnès Clément harp Schubert Die schöne Müllerin D795 Interactive music-making sessions Bax Elegiac Trio for flute, viola Repeat of concert on 13 April for children aged 1 to 5 and their and harp Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in parents or carers, with songs, Debussy Syrinx for solo flute; duration, without an interval percussion and the chance to Sonata for flute, viola and harp meet some exciting instruments Stravinsky Elegy for solo viola £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 up close. Presented by music Sofia Gubaidulina Garten von leaders Esther Sheridan and Supported by the members of The Freuden und Traurigkeiten for Lucy Drever alongside emerging Rubinstein Circle flute, viola and harp chamber ensembles.

Works for the combination of 10.15am – 11.15am (1–2 year-olds) flute, viola and harp are explored 11.45am – 12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) by three exceptional artists, with Debussy’s late Sonata (1915) Children £7 Adults £5 and Bax’s Elegiac Trio (1916) interspersed with solo miniatures and preceding Sofia Gubaidulina’s haunting Garden of Joys and Sorrows (1980). First Time Booker Offer New to Family events at £16 concs £14 Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

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SOLACE WOMEN’S AID

Wigmore Hall works in partnership with Solace Women’s Aid, an 'Music offers an organisation that for more than 40 years has supported women emotional release for both and children in London to build safe and strong lives and futures free from abuse and violence. mother and child, it helps Musicians from Wigmore Hall lead weekly workshops with strengthen bonds, unlocks women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, creativity that has been using singing and creative music making to help improve their stifled and suppressed, wellbeing and provide a space where women and children can because of abuse.' have fun together and express themselves creatively. Solace Women’s Aid staff member We see first-hand the positive effect that music can have on the participants: over the series of workshops we often witness participants increasing in confidence, and the bond between mothers and children is strengthened.

Music Leader Georgia Duncan © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 25

Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Saturday 20 April Sunday 21 April Bach’s keyboard works have been 7.30pm 11.30am part of Angela Hewitt’s daily life since childhood – an ongoing involvement Trio Mediæval Kelemen Quartet that continues to inform her inspiring Lumen de Lumine Haydn Seven Last Words from performances today. ‘To develop the Cross Op. 51 in his company one’s musical Anon (16th century) Ecce lignum intelligence, technique, beauty of crucis (an antiphon for Good Friday) sound and spirit,’ she wrote, ‘is a (arr. Trio Mediæval); Alleluia: Founded in 2010, the Kelemen great gift and a lifelong adventure.’ Surrexit Dominus vere (an antiphon Quartet has achieved considerable for Easter) (arr. Trio Mediæval) prominence among today’s ensembles. Haydn composed his Thursday 18 April Trad/Estonian/Friman Abba, originally orchestral Seven Last 7.30pm hjärtans Fader god; Pris vare Gud; Nu haver denna dag Sungji Hong Words for liturgical performance From Missa Lumen de Lumine: Kyrie in Cádiz in 1786, each of Jesus’ Angela Hewitt piano & Agnus Dei Anon (13th century) moving statements being Bach Toccatas: in C minor BWV911, De la crudel morte de Cristo (arr. represented by a slow movement; in G BWV916, in F sharp minor Trio Mediæval); Plangiamo quel the following year the present BWV910, in E minor BWV914, crudel basciar (arr. Trio Mediæval); version for string quartet was in D minor BWV913, in G minor Oi me lasso Anon Veni creator published as his Op. 51. BWV915 & in D BWV912; Spiritus Trad/Norwegian/Fuglseth Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in Kyrkjeklokka; Nu solen går ned; Krist £16 concs £14 inc. programme D minor BWV903 er oppstanden; Fryd dig, du Kristi and coffee/sherry/juice brud Andrew Smith New work Gavin The Italian word ‘toccata’ simply Bryars Ave regina gloriosa (Lauda means touched, implying music VII) attr. Pérotin Beata Viscera that should be lightly and brilliantly despatched. Angela Hewitt Founded in 1997, the Norwegian concentrates on those by Bach, which vocal trio explores its specialisms in date from the earlier part of his career. music from its chosen period and works by selected contemporary £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 composers such as the English Gavin Bryars and Andrew Smith as Forthcoming Concerts in this Series well as the Korean Sungji Hong.

Thursday 13 June 7.30pm £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Tuesday 23 April Fauré/Schumann 7.30pm

Steven Isserlis cello Project Janine Jansen violin Steven Isserlis has consistently championed his favourite composers, his love and enthusiasm for their music shining through Arisa Fujita violin committed interpretations. Throughout this series, he joins with a Amihai Grosz viola group of musical friends to espouse the causes of two contrasting figures, in each case exploring works that deserve to be more Connie Shih piano frequently heard. Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Fauré Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor Op. 89; Romance Op. 69; Elégie Op. 24 Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47

The latest instalment of Steven Isserlis’s juxtaposition of two favourite composers includes the first of Fauré’s two piano quintets, unveiled in 1906, and Schumann’s single piano quartet, an exuberant work emanating from his year devoted to chamber music (1842).

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Events in this Series

Saturday 16 June 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk with Steven Isserlis

Saturday 16 June 7.30pm Steven Isserlis cello with Anthony Marwood violin Irène Duval violin Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola Dénes Várjon piano & Izabella Simon piano

Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 27

Ensemble Correspondances Residency Monday 22 April Founded in Lyon in 2009 by the musicologist, organist and 1.00pm harpsichord player Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble Correspondances has won an international reputation for its historically informed Pavel Haas Quartet performances of music from the French Baroque period which fulfil the spirit as well as the letter of the scores they revive. Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108; Monday 22 April String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 7.30pm

Named after a Czech composer taught by Janáček and Ensemble Correspondances subsequently murdered in Sébastien Daucé conductor, organ the Holocaust, the ensemble’s Sophie Karthäuser soprano performances have been described as ‘spellbinding’ due to Leçons des Ténèbres its ‘total immersion in the music’. de Lalande Plainchant: Tristis est anima mea, Ecce vidimus eum, Dedicated to the memory of his Vinea mea electa, Plange quasi virgo & Salve regina; Leçons: du first wife, Nina, Shostakovich’s Mercredy Saint, du Jeudy Saint & du Vendredy Saint Seventh Quartet (1960) precedes Charpentier Salve Regina his wartime Second (1941), which de Lalande Cantique sur le bonheur des justes; Miserere mei Deus refers to Jewish folk music. A varied programme of sacred works by a leading French Baroque £16 concs £14 composer who held several important appointments under both Louis XIV and his successor and which climaxes in one of his celebrated grands motets.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

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Schumann Song Series Focusing on a figure widely featured in themed programmes throughout the season, the Schumann Song Series – devised by Malcolm Martineau and musicologist Susan Youens, with singers chosen by John Gilhooly – offers an in-depth exploration of the great composer’s extraordinary output, which is amongst the most rewarding within the entire Lieder tradition. The Schumann Song Series is made possible with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Wednesday 24 April 7.30pm

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Robin Tritschler tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann Myrthen Op. 25 Schumann Duets: Er und Sie; In der Nacht from Spanisches Liederspiel; Liebhabers Ständchen; Unterm Fenster

Two leading singers join Malcolm Martineau in the final concert of the series, with a programme featuring Myrthen, one of Schumann’s major song collections, presented in 1840 to Clara Wieck as a wedding present from her new husband: myrtles are regularly made into bridal wreaths.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

Malcolm Martineau © Russell Duncan wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 29

Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2019 Thursday 25 April Saturday 27 April 7.30pm 10.30am – 3.30pm The annual auditions for the famous singing competition, The Orlando Consort Family Day: founded in memory of one of The Secrets of Heaven the UK’s best-loved contraltos, Wild River Adventures attract capacity houses from both Dunstaple Veni sancte spiritus/ For ages 5 plus devoted lovers of vocal art and Veni creator spiritus; Quam pulchra students of singing. es; Descendi in ortum meum Anon Join music leader Hannah Opstad (13th century) Alleluya Christo on a winding adventure as we iubilemus Anon (14th century) O Wednesday 24 April follow the journey of a river 1.30pm sponsa Dei electa; Kyrie, Cuthberte through mountains, waterfalls and prece Power Gloria Bittering wherever our imaginations take En Katerine solennia Roy Henry us! Together we’ll explore stories Semi-Final Sanctus Anon (2nd Fountains and music inspired by rivers and Abbey Manuscript) Credo Anon create our own musical journey to £19 students £12 (Trent Codices) Stella caeli share with each other onstage. Pyamour Quam pulcra es Forest Tota pulcra es Plummer Anna Friday 26 April Children £10 Adults £15 6.00pm mater matris Christi Anon (Egerton Manuscript) Audivi vocem Anon (Ritson Manuscript) Gaude virgo Final Trouluffe Nesciens mater Lambe Stella celi £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 First Time Booker Offer The Orlando Consort’s selection New to Family events at of 14th- and 15th-century sacred Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either music from England’s first great by phone or in person. age features works by John Dunstaple, Leonel Power and John Plummer, the forebears of Taverner, Sheppard and Byrd. Everything is here: beauty, spirituality, invention, complexity and virtuosity.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

The Orlando Consort Family Day © Eric Richmond © James Berry

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Saturday 27 April 7.30pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Reto Bieri clarinet Polina Leschenko piano Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Vivier Piece for violin and clarinet Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano BB116 Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Milhaud Jeu from Suite for clarinet, violin and piano Op. 157b Paul Schoenfield Trio for clarinet, violin and piano

Three highly individual musicians – the Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist, Swiss clarinettist and Russian pianist – come together in different permutations for a broad programme climaxing in a 1990 trio by the American Paul Schoenfield, which incorporates a variety of Jewish-influenced material.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 31

Sunday 28 April Sunday 28 April 11.30am 6.30pm NB time

Ning Feng violin Louis Lortie piano Yukako Morikawa piano Liszt Années de pèlerinage: première année, Suisse S160, deuxième année, Italie S161 & troisième année S163 Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304 Franck Sonata in A for violin and The French-Canadian pianist celebrates his 60th birthday this piano year, four years after his set of Liszt’s three-volume Years of Sarasate Zigeunerweisen Op. 20 Pilgrimage – impressions of travels in Italy and Switzerland, composed over a period of 40 years – was hailed as one of the ten best recordings of the year by The New Yorker. A multi-award-winning Chinese violinist joins with the Japanese Approximately 3 hours 10 minutes in duration, including two intervals pianist for a programme drawing on three different traditions: £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Mozart’s troubled sonata written at the time of his mother’s death in 1778; Franck’s buoyant late-Romantic masterpiece; and the late 19th-century Spanish composer-violinist Pablo de Sarasate’s flamboyantly colourful tribute to gypsy melodies.

£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Ning Feng Louis Lortie © Felix Broede © EliasPhotography 32 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wigmore Study Group: Monday 29 April Ravel Monday 29 April 1.00pm 7.30pm Monday 29 April Julian Prégardien tenor Thursday 2 May Hagen Quartet Monday 6 May Eric Le Sage piano All dates 3.00pm – 6.00pm Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Crossing the divide: Ravel's music Fauré Nocturne No. 6 in D flat Shostakovich String Quartet for voice and chamber ensemble No. 13 in B flat minor Op. 138 Op. 63 (solo piano) Fauré La bonne chanson Op. 61 Ravel pushed boundaries in Beethoven String Quartet in his song writing, blurring C sharp minor Op. 131 Two exceptional artists – the the lines between natural French pianist especially spoken and sung French in Offering masterpieces by three admired for his interpretations of ways that scandalised his of the greatest composers for Schumann and Fauré – unite for contemporaries. In 1913, the medium, what is by general a programme devoted to major Stravinsky introduced him to consensus one of the world’s cycles by both composers. The Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and finest quartets has achieved former’s Heine cycle precedes the his own Three Japanese Lyrics. renown for its performances not latter’s Verlaine settings of 1892-4, Ravel was inspired to bring only of the classical repertoire dedicated to Emma Bardac, with an instrumental quality to his but also of Shostakovich, whose whom Fauré was in love at the vocal writing and this led to his innovative one-movement work time of composition. Chansons madécasses. Explore was completed in August 1970 Ravel's superlative mastery of following a period of ill health. instrumentation alongside his £16 concs £14 unique imaginative approach £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 to setting the French language, in these sessions presented by composer Julian Philips, with pianist Laura Roberts, visiting speakers and student performers from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Series ticket price £70 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on Monday 6 May

Julian Prégardien Maurice Ravel Hagen Quartet © Marco Borggreve © Harald Hoffmann wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 33

Pekka Kuusisto Residency Tuesday 30 April Whether as classical violinist or improviser, composer or orchestral 7.30pm director, Pekka Kuusisto enlivens the musical scene with levels of energy and engagement few can match. As he continues to refresh Marcus Farnsworth the classics, he demonstrates an equal ability to enthuse audiences for new music conceived in a variety of genres. baritone Pekka Kuusisto’s Residency is supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg's James Baillieu piano Voluntary Settlement, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Lines from a Wanderer Endowment Fund Schubert Der Wanderer an den Mond; Auf der Donau; Strophe aus Wednesday 1 May ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Auf der 7.30pm Bruck (Auf der Brücke) Fauré L’horizon chimérique Op. 118 Pekka Kuusisto violin Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Scheiden und Meiden Prof Dr Erik Scherder neuropsychologist & Ich ging mit Lust; Ging heut’ Jukka Huitila visual designer Morgen from Lieder eines fahrenden Programme to include music by JS Bach, Kreutzer, Thomas Adès, Gesellen; Ich bin der Welt abhanden Jörg Widmann and Paganini gekommen from Rückert Lieder John Casken Lines from a Pekka Kuusisto and Professor Scherder demonstrate the strength Wanderer (London première) and beauty of music when experienced by different human brains; Britten Lemady; The False Knight a developing versus an adult brain, a vulnerable brain affected by upon the Road; The Soldier and the diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, and the brain of a Sailor; At the mid hour of night; patient experiencing pain. The Crocodile They also explore what, if anything, happens in the brain of a After winning several vocal prizes, professional violinist and the brain of a musical improviser, look at the Marcus Farnsworth has gone on possible differences between musical and non-musical brains and to found and direct the Southwell explore the involvement of important neural systems when singing. Music Festival. A highlight of This event promises to be an exciting and insightful evening! his programme is John Casken’s cycle, which he and James £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Baillieu premièred in 2016. Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Marcus Farnsworth Pekka Kuusisto © Andy Staples © Kaapo Kamu 34 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Thursday 2 May Friday 3 May 7.30pm 7.00pm NB time

Notos Quartett Piotr Anderszewski piano Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in 50th Birthday Concert C minor Op. 60 Programme to include: Françaix Divertissement Preludes and Fugues from Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier for string trio and piano Book II Bartók Piano Quartet in C minor Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 Op. 20 (UK première) A celebratory event for the popular Polish pianist who turns 50 This programme contains the this year and who made his Wigmore debut nearly 30 years ago. UK première of a major work His own recording of Beethoven’s mighty set of variations won by Bartók championed by the various prizes while his long relationship with the piece has been outstanding German piano quartet chronicled in a film by Bruno Monsaingeon. in its search for forgotten musical treasure. Lost for many years, £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 the quartet was written in late- Romantic style in 1898, when the composer was 17.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Notos Quartett Piotr Anderszewski © Uwe Arens © MG de Saint Venant licenced to Virgin Classics wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 35

Wigmore Lates Friday 3 May Sunday 5 May Sunday 5 May 10.00pm 11.30am 3.00pm

Anne Sofie von Otter Jan Vogler cello Paula Murrihy mezzo- mezzo-soprano Antti Siirala piano soprano Bengt Forsberg piano Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Malcolm Martineau piano Purcell/Thomas Adès By A flat Op. 70 The Mendelssohns and the Beauteous Softness Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Schumanns Britten Voici le Printemps; La belle Op. 102 No. 2 Programme to include: est au jardin d’amour; Fileuse; Shostakovich Cello Sonata in Felix Mendelssohn 6 Gesänge The Plough Boy; The Foggy, Foggy D minor Op. 40 Op. 99 Dew; At the mid hour of night; Robert Schumann 6 Gedichte von Come you not from Newcastle?; The German-born, New-York- N Lenau und Requiem Op. 90 The Salley Gardens resident cellist and his Finnish Selection of Lieder by Grainger Peace and Saxon Twiplay pianist partner offer two major Fanny Mendelssohn and and other piano solos sonatas – Beethoven’s last Clara Schumann Shostakovich 6 Verses of Marina work for the instrument, which Tsvetayeva Op. 143 prefigures his final period, and The Irish mezzo and her Scottish Shostakovich’s intense work of pianist present a programme The great mezzo returns for a 1934, alongside Schumann’s late assembling songs by Fanny late-night event with her regular and expressive pair of movements. Mendelssohn and her brother pianist Bengt Forsberg, their main Felix, and Clara Schumann and work Shostakovich’s powerful £16 concs £14 inc. programme her husband Robert – those by the settings of a poet who had and coffee/sherry/juice two female composers steadily lived outside Russia for many moving towards the centre of our years before returning in 1939, listening experience. eventually committing suicide in 1941, alongside an admiring All seats £16 realisation by Thomas Adès of a great predecessor’s work.

All seats £16

Anne Sofie von Otter Jan Vogler Paula Murrihy © Mats Bäcker © Jim Rakete © Barbara Aumüller 36 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wigmore Lates Wigmore Lates, firm fixtures in the Hall’s summer calendar, make the ideal start to the weekend. Join us for a late-night concert, followed by live music in the bar. Kicking off with a wonderful mezzo-soprano and piano duo, highlights include the Chineke! Orchestra, Europe’s first majority-BME orchestra, Sean Shibe’s ‘bracingly original concert programme’ softLOUD (Gramophone), and sarod virtuosi Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash. Visit wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details. The Wigmore Lates series is supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

All seats £16 (including entry to the bar after the concert)

Friday 3 May Friday 14 June 10.00pm 10.00pm

Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano Viktoria Mullova violin Bengt Forsberg piano The Russian violinist plays solo works by Bach, Dai Haunting songs by Shostakovich, folksongs by Britten Fujikura, Sir George Benjamin, Prokofievand her and a Purcell realisation by Thomas Adès open this son Misha Mullov-Abbado year’s Wigmore Lates series

Friday 31 May Friday 21 June 10.00pm 10.00pm

Amaan Ali Bangash sarod Chineke! Orchestra Ayaan Ali Bangash sarod Celebrated ensemble and Europe’s first majority BME Jennifer Pike violin orchestra explores chamber works by Saint-Saëns and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, alongside the London Sons of the sarod great Amjad Ali Khan play works première of Nnenna by Errollyn Wallen by their father, joined by Jennifer Pike, who also explores a solo Bach partita wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 37

Friday 28 June Friday 19 July 10.00pm 10.00pm

Sean Shibe guitar Susan Bullock soprano Richard Sisson piano softLOUD = acoustic and electric, ancient and modern, traditional and innovative... Sean Shibe Songs from the Great American Songbook, from classic brings ’s Electric Counterpoint together Steve Reich Rodgers & Hammerstein and George Gershwin to with mellow, old and new Scottish tunes modern masters Burt Bacharach and Stephen Sondheim

Friday 12 July 10.00pm

Adam Walker flute Sean Shibe guitar

Flautist Adam Walker is joined by guitarist Sean Shibe for Piazolla’s most famous work Histoire du Tango, as well as pieces by Takemitsu and Shankar 38 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141 In Focus: Sir George Benjamin Musicians from the Royal Northern Saturday 4 May College of Music 10.30am – 11.20am Clark Rundell artistic director RNCM soloists The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall are delighted to present a day of music to celebrate the Maria Luc, Luke Jones, Anna work of composer Sir George Benjamin. Benjamin is Denisova piano truly one of the musical giants of our time, composing Katie Hyland flute music that must be heard live. The visceral quality of the music he creates absorbs the listener in constantly Sir George Benjamin Meditation on Haydn’s Name; shifting layers of sound, from the startling to the Relativity Rag; Flight; Sortilèges; Piano Figures touching and from the virtuosic to the beautifully simple. Following on from performances in Manchester in January, Saturday 4 May 12 noon – 1.00pm this study day features solo, chamber and orchestral works performed by students from the RNCM. In Conversation Music broadcaster and curator Sara Mohr-Pietsch (BBC Radio 3) leads an informal conversation with today's featured composer Sir George Benjamin.

Saturday 4 May 2.00pm – 3.00pm

RNCM New Ensemble Mark Heron, Jack Sheen, Laurent Zufferey conductors Callum Smart violin Sir George Benjamin Octet; 3 Miniatures for solo violin; Fantasia 7 after Henry Purcell; At First Light

All seats £5 (each event) or day ticket £12 In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music

Sir George Benjamin © Matthew Lloyd wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 39

Sunday 5 May Monday 6 May Tuesday 7 May 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Aaron Pilsan piano The King’s Singers Andreas Staier fortepiano Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 An unconventional journey from Schubert Piano Sonata in A Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 7 in Moscow to London in one hour D959; Piano Sonata in B flat D Op. 10 No. 3 Alexander Levine New work (part D960 Szymanowski Metopes Op. 29 one) Kedrov Otche Nash Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca No. 47 Sibelius Rakastava (The Lover) Andreas Staier has become from Années de pèlerinage, Tormis Ratas Zieleński In monte particularly admired for his deuxième année, Italie S161; oliveti Kodály Esti dal Tučapský performances of works from Mephisto Waltz No. 1 S514 Slough Comedian Harmonists the classical and early Romantic Eins, zwei, drei und vier periods on the fortepiano. Two Currently studying with Lars Brahms Abendständchen large-scale sonatas, both dating Vogt, the 24-year-old Austrian Poulenc 4 petites prières from Schubert’s final year, will has already garnered significant de Saint François d’Assise offer him supreme opportunities attention with performances and Alexander Levine for his talents, both expansive a solo recording of Beethoven and New work (part two) compositions conceived on a Schubert; in his Wigmore debut, Music from Home – songs in substantial scale and executed he reveals wider interests in Liszt The King’s Singers’ signature with profundity. and in Szymanowski’s triptych close-harmony style from the inspired by Greek mythology. British Isles £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Now in their sixth decade, the ever- inventive King’s Singers take us on an entertaining journey with many and multifarious stopping-off points, topped and tailed by a new work.

£16 concs £14

Aaron Pilsan The King's Singers Andreas Staier © Marie Staggat © Marco Borggreve © Josep Molina 40 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 4 May 7.30pm Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Georg Kallweit leader

Handel and Telemann Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 3: No. 4 in F, No. 5 in D minor, No. 2 in B flat, No. 6 in D, No. 3 in G & No. 1 in B flat Telemann From Canons Mélodieux: Piacevole non Largo from Sonata No. 4 in D minor TWV40:121, Presto from Sonata No. 2 in G minor TWV40:119, Adagio from Sonata No. 1 in G TWV40:118 & Soave from Sonata No. 6 in A minor TWV40:123

One of the most widely admired of all Baroque ensembles, the Berlin period-instrument orchestra’s programme focuses on Handel’s Concerti Grossi Op. 3, published in 1734, alternating with Telemann’s Canonic Sonatas, which appeared four years later.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin © Uwe Arens wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 41

Saturday 11 May Saturday 11 May 1.00pm 7.30pm

Sumi Jo Masterclass Alban Gerhardt cello For more than 30 years, the consummate artistry of the lyric Steven Osborne piano coloratura soprano and bel canto specialist has enchanted Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston audiences the world over. Working here with students from London Op. 102 music colleges, she passes on her insights into vocal technique and Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F interpretation in a repertoire in which she has few peers. Op. 99 Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval Falla 7 canciones populares españolas (arr. Maurice Maréchal £10 concs £8 for cello and piano) Debussy Estampes (solo piano) Sunday 12 May Ravel Alborada del gracioso from 3.00pm Miroirs (arr. Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco); Pièce en forme de habanera (arr. Paul Bazelaire); soprano Sumi Jo Tzigane (arr. Laszlo Varga) Gary Matthewman piano Krzysztof Meisinger guitar A pairing of ‘superbly instinctive players with an almost subliminal Rossini La fioraia fiorentina; Sombre forêt fromGuillaume Tell sense of what the other is about Villa-Lobos Melodia Sentimental from Floresta do Amazonas; to do’ (The Guardian) return for a Aria (Cantilena) from Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 Tárrega Rosita programme whose German first Chabrier España (arr. Krzysztof Meisinger for voice, piano and half is succeeded by a second guitar) Debussy Nuit d’étoiles; Rondel chinois; L’âme évaporée; highlighting arrangements of La romance d’Ariel Ravel Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera Spanish and gypsy-related pieces. Lecocq O Paris, gai séjour de plaisir from Les cent vierges £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 The star Korean soprano collaborates with two eminent musicians for this programme visiting Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Spain (including an unusual arrangement of Chabrier’s showpiece), Cuba and China before focusing on Paris.

All seats £16

Sumi Jo Alban Gerhardt © Youngho Kang © Kaupo Kikkas 42 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Ravel Song Series Maurice Ravel was a complex creative figure, in whose highly sophisticated art elements from his native French tradition meld with other distinctive influences – notably a fascination with Spanish culture, and an attraction to various kinds of exoticism – both aspects explored in this series put together by pianist Joseph Middleton.

Monday 6 May 7.30pm

Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Roderick Williams baritone Adam Walker flute Guy Johnston cello Joseph Middleton piano Basque blood and the folksong Fauré Vocalise-étude Ravel Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera; Don Quichotte à Dulcinée; 5 mélodies populaires grecques; From Chants populaires: Chanson française, Chanson espagnole, Chanson italienne, Chanson hébraïque & Chanson ecossaise Guridi 6 Canciones Castellanas Britten Il est quelqu’un sur terre Falla Asturiana from 7 canciones populares españolas Scarlatti Son tutta duolo Schumann Aus den hebräischen Gesängen from Myrthen Trad/Scottish Ca’ the yowes Ravel Chansons madécasses

An intriguing programme exploring folksong and its impact on the classical world, especially through the works of Maurice Ravel, whose mother was Basque, as was Jesús Guridi.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Clara Mouriz © Jose Manuel Bielsa wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 43

Sunday 12 May Monday 13 May Monday 13 May 11.30am 1.00pm 7.30pm

Castalian Quartet Gould Piano Trio Håkan Hardenberger Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Kirchner From Bunte Blätter trumpet Op. 36 Op. 83: Novellette, Lied ohne Roland Pöntinen piano Schubert String Quartet in Worte, Barcarola, Capriccio & Antheil Trumpet Sonata A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Abendmusik Staffan Storm Three Autumns Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Berio Sequenza X for solo Over the last few years, the Op. 8 trumpet; Wasserklavier Castalian Quartet has won a Salvatore Sciarrino Anamorfosi number of awards that testify to its Coloured Leaves is a title readily Gershwin Swanee excellence within a crowded field; associated with Schumann, but Roland Pöntinen L’éléphant rose its programme comprises Britten’s the enterprising Gould Piano Trio Jan Lundgren The Seagull 1945 masterpiece and a popular performs extracts from a similar set Thomson At the Beach work by a composer Britten of pieces by the forgotten Theodor particularly loved. Schubert’s Kirchner (1823-1903), a figure One of the most virtuosic quartet refers to more than one of admired not only by Schumann trumpeters and a prominent his songs, while its slow movement but also Brahms, whose First Trio Swedish pianist team up to ensure is a set of variations on a theme completes the programme. a lively event, distinguished here by from his incidental music to the Staffan Storm’s work inspired by play Rosamunde. £16 concs £14 Anna Akhmatova, the sonata by the self-styled ‘bad boy’ of music, and £16 concs £14 inc. programme a piece by Roland Pöntinen himself. and coffee/sherry/juice £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Castalian Quartet Gould Piano Trio Håkan Hardenberger © Kaupo Kikkas © Jake Morley © Marco Borggreve 44 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

The Complete Bartók String Quartets Wednesday 8 May Thursday 9 May 7.30pm 7.30pm

Jerusalem Quartet Jerusalem Quartet Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52; String Quartet Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75; String Quartet No. 3 BB93; String Quartet No. 5 BB110 No. 4 BB95; String Quartet No. 6 BB119

‘Beauty and muscularity abound’, said The Strad The even-numbered works date from between the of the Jerusalem Quartet’s recording of three of period 1915-17 and the beginning of the Second Bartók’s quartets – together one of the cornerstones World War. Highly original in their thematic material of the repertoire. In the first of two programmes the and technical demands, these three works form a leading Israeli ensemble offers the odd-numbered mighty challenge to any group of players but remain works, traversing a musical journey that takes the infinitely rewarding for listeners in their variety and composer from 1909 to 1934. expressive power.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Jerusalem Quartet © Robert Torres wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 45

Tuesday 14 May Wednesday 15 May Thursday 16 May 7.00pm NB time 11.00am and 12.30pm 3.00pm and 7.00pm

Sir András Schiffpiano For Crying Out Loud! YCAT Public Final Bach Partitas: No. 5 in G BWV829, Auditions 2019 No. 3 in A minor BWV827, No. 1 in Hear outstanding performances Young Classical Artists Trust: the B flat BWV825, No. 2 in C minor by musicians from the Royal destination point for emerging talent BWV826, No. 4 in D BWV828 & Academy of Music in these No. 6 in E minor BWV830 concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies YCAT Artists are selected through a Repeat of concert on 10 May under 1 to enjoy together in a rigorous annual auditions process. In Approximately 3 hours in duration, relaxed and accommodating this third and final round, outstanding including an interval environment. Parents-to-be are young soloists and chamber also warmly welcomed. ensembles, selected from over £50 £45 £40 £35 £25 100 applicants in the preliminary Approximately 45 minutes in duration rounds, audition before a panel of distinguished judges. Join YCAT in Adults £8.50 (babies come free) celebrating the very best emerging talent in the UK at this unique event. Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Alison Balsom, James Baillieu and the Heath, Doric and First Time Booker Offer Belcea Quartets. New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either Both sessions (3.00pm and by phone or in person. 7.00pm): £20 Individual session: £12 concs £10 YCAT is grateful for support from the Rachel Baker Memorial Charity, Help Musicians UK and the International Music and Art Foundation for this series

Sir András Schiff For Crying Out Loud! YCAT © Nadia F Romanini © Benjamin Ealovega © Kaupo Kikkas 46 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 10 May 7.00pm NB time Sir András Schiffpiano Bach Partitas: No. 5 in G BWV829, No. 3 in A minor BWV827, No. 1 in B flat BWV825, No. 2 in C minor BWV826, No. 4 in D BWV828 & No. 6 in E minor BWV830

Having won exceptional praise for his performances of the 48 Preludes and Fugues at the Proms, a musician who is unquestionably one of today’s leading Bach interpreters takes on the group of keyboard suites published between 1726 and 1730. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval

£50 £45 £40 £35 £25

Concert Repeated

Tuesday 14 May 7.00pm

Sir András Schiff © Yutaka Suzuki wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 47

Friday 17 May Saturday 18 May Saturday 18 May 11.00am – 12 noon 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm

Schools Concert: Family Concert: Ema Nikolovska Heroes and Villains Heroes and Villains mezzo-soprano Key Stage 2 For ages 5 plus Dylan Perez piano Guildhall Wigmore Recital Join countertenor Patrick Terry, Join countertenor Patrick Terry, Prize 2019 presenter Isabelle Adams and presenter Isabelle Adams and Purcell Sweeter than Roses; From characters from 18th-century characters from 18th-century Silent Shades Schubert Auflösung; opera for a concert of glorious opera for a concert of glorious Abendstern; Der Musensohn; arias and diva behaviour. Travel arias and diva behaviour. Travel An die Entfernte Wolf Auf einer on a marvellous musical journey on a marvellous musical journey Wanderung; Lied vom Winde; and explore the costumes, drama and explore the costumes, drama Verschwiegene Liebe; Nimmersatte and characters of the time. and characters of the time. Liebe Mahler Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Phantasie aus Don Juan; Children £4 Accompanying Adults Children £10 Adults £12 Erinnerung; Frühlingsmorgen; Free (ticket required) Selbstgefühl Medtner Twilight; The Raven; Sleeplessness Rodrigo En Jerez de la Frontera; Adela; De ronda; Canción del cucú; ¡Un Home, First Time Booker Offer San Antonio! Ned Rorem What New to Family events at Sparks and Wiry Cries; A Journey; Wigmore Hall? Buy your A Birthday; Jeanie with the Light tickets for half price, either Brown Hair; Visits to St Elizabeth’s by phone or in person. The prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska offers a programme covering five distinctive national traditions.

£16 concs £14

Schools Concert Family Concert Ema Nikolovska © Benjamin Ealovega © Belinda Lawley © Lazar Nikolovski 48 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Associate Artists Takács Quartet Founded as long ago as 1975 in Budapest but resident at the University of Boulder, Colorado, since 1983, the long-revered Takács Quartet has undergone inevitable changes in personnel while retaining its position as one of the world’s most distinctive ensembles and maintaining a close connection with Wigmore Hall as Associate Artists.

Wednesday 15 May Friday 17 May 7.30pm 7.30pm

Takács Quartet Takács Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Garrick Ohlsson piano Bartók String Quartet No. 6 BB119 Beach 5 Improvisations Op. 148 Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 Elgar May Song; Serenade for piano Beach Piano Quintet Op. 67 A varied programme including mature masterpieces Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 by Haydn and Bartók alongside Grieg’s sole completed and extant work in the medium – a Joined by Garrick Ohlsson, who plays some rarely substantial piece in which the composer strove for heard piano pieces, the Takács players explore the ‘breadth and soaring flight’ and achieves emotional admired Piano Quintet (1907) by Amy Beach, an power as well as dynamic flow. American late-Romantic composer whose work is steadily, if belatedly, coming to the fore, and the £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 energetic example written by Elgar some 10 years later. With grateful thanks to The String Quartet Circle £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Takács Quartet © Amanda Tipton photography wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 49

Sunday 19 May Sunday 19 May Monday 20 May 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Jonathan Plowright piano Royal Academy of Music Andreas Haefligerpiano Paderewski From Humoresques Soloists Ensemble Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 de Concert Op. 14: Menuet in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata Trevor Pinnock conductor célèbre, Sarabande & Caprice No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 (genre Scarlatti) Thomas Gould violin, leader Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b Bach Brandenburg Concerto ‘Even more than many musicians,’ No. 3 in G BWV1048 wrote The Daily Telegraph, With his interest in works beyond Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 ‘Andreas Haefliger has made the regular repertoire, Jonathan (arr. Józef Koffler) (UK première) Beethoven central to his thinking.’ Plowright tackles rarities by two A regular guest at Wigmore Hall late-Romantic composers; three Trevor Pinnock directs the Royal over many seasons, the Swiss pieces by the celebrated Polish Academy of Music Soloists pianist returns with two of the pianist and politician Ignacy Ensemble, who are joined for this late piano sonatas in a recital sure Jan Paderewski (1887), and collaboration by violinist Thomas to be savoured as a highlight of Tchaikovsky’s delightful traversal Gould and students from Toronto’s considered musicianship. of the months of the year. Glenn Gould School. This concert features the UK premiere of Józef £16 concs £14 £16 concs £14 inc. programme Koffler’s remarkable arrangement and coffee/sherry/juice of the Goldberg Variations, completed in 1938. Scored for small orchestra, the version is largely unknown, surprisingly so given the ubiquity of Bach’s keyboard original.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Jonathan Plowright Trevor Pinnock Andreas Haefliger © Diane Shaw © Matthias von der Tann © Marco Borggreve 50 • MAY BoxBox Office: Office: 020 020 7935 7935 2141 2141

APPRENTICE COMPOSER

As part of Wigmore Hall’s Pathways programme, 'I am incredibly excited to be we are delighted to be working with Daniel Fardon, working with the Wigmore Hall, the Rosie Johnson RPS Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer 2018/19. The Apprentice Composer scheme, Royal Philharmonic Society, and in partnership with the Royal Philharmonic Society, Bloomsbury Quartet on the Rosie is part of a trio of opportunities Wigmore Hall offers Johnson Apprentice Composer scheme for emerging artists, alongside the Trainee Music for 2018/19. The collaborative and Leader and the Royal Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble programmes. Across the year, the supportive nature of this invaluable Apprentice Composer has opportunities to observe, take year-long project is a deeply part in and collaborate on projects led by Wigmore Hall rewarding and enriching opportunity Learning, as well as mentorship from Wigmore Hall’s for an emerging composer, and I Composer in Residence, Helen Grime. On Wednesday 17 July 2019 Wigmore Hall is proud to host the world am very much looking forward to première of a newly commissioned work by Daniel developing a new string quartet as a Fardon, commissioned by the RPS, for the 2018/19 culmination of this programme.’ Fellowship Ensemble, the Bloomsbury Quartet. Daniel Fardon

Daniel Fardon © James Hamp wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 51

Monday 20 May Tuesday 21 May Wednesday 22 May 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Henning Kraggerud violin Castalian Quartet Chamber Tots: Adrian Brendel cello Anthony Marwood violin In the Garden Imogen Cooper piano Aleksandar Madžar piano Interactive music-making sessions Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor for children aged 1 to 5 and their Op. 1 No. 1; Piano Trio in B flat Op. 82; String Quartet in E minor parents or carers, with songs, Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Op. 83; Piano Quintet in A minor percussion and the chance to Op. 84 meet some exciting instruments Three exceptional musicians up close. Presented by music who are long-term collaborators An all-Elgar programme from leaders Esther Sheridan and together explore the first and the Castalian Quartet with their Lucy Drever alongside emerging last piano trios by Beethoven, guests brings together three chamber ensembles. the good-natured E flat from works completed in sequence in his official Opus 1, published in 1918, during the final period of 10.15am – 11.15am (1–2 year-olds) 1795, and the B flat ‘Archduke’ the composer’s creativity, and 11.45am – 12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) composed in 1810-11 and representing his distinctive voice dedicated to Beethoven’s friend at its most personal and intimate. Children £7 Adults £5 and pupil, the Archduke Rudolph Both the String Quartet and the – the last work the composer ever Piano Quintet had their first public played in public. performances at Wigmore Hall on this day in 1919. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 First Time Booker Offer £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 New to Family events at With grateful thanks to the Patron, Wigmore Hall? Buy your Benefactor & Supporter Friends of tickets for half price, either Wigmore Hall by phone or in person.

Henning Kraggerud Castalian Quartet Chamber Tots © Robert Romik © Kaupo Kikkas © Benjamin Ealovega 52 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 22 May Igor Levit: 7.30pm

Igor Levit piano Variations Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Two years prior to winning the prestigious Gilmore Award in 2018, Igor Levit simultaneously won (among In the first of his three programmes, the outstanding others) two Gramophone Awards – the Instrumental pianist essays an iconic work and one of the pinnacles Award as well as Recording of the Year – for his three- of the keyboard repertoire, which, as the original 1741 CD set of variations, the works he revisits here live publication puts it, was ‘composed for connoisseurs, alongside a further example of the genre. for the refreshment of their spirits’. Consisting of an aria and 30 variations, the work shows Bach’s incomparable compositional skills at their height. Approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval

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Forthcoming Events in this Series

Friday 24 May 6.00pm Artists in Conversation: Igor Levit

Friday 24 May 7.30pm

Monday 27 May 7.30pm

Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 53

Schumann String Quartet Series Igor Levit: Variations Thursday 23 May Thursday 23 May Friday 24 May 1.00pm – 2.00pm 7.30pm 6.00pm

Voiceworks Elias String Quartet Artists in Conversation: Bach The Art of Fugue BWV1080 Igor Levit Join us for this lunchtime (extracts) concert featuring brand new Join pianist Igor Levit in conversation Mozart String Quartet in B flat ahead of his evening concert. works for the voice, the result of K458 ‘Hunt’ a unique collaboration between RNCM composition competition Approximately 45 minutes in duration writers, composers, singers and winner New work (companion instrumentalists from the Guildhall piece to Schumann String Quartet £5 School of Music and Drama. No. 3) Schumann String Quartet in A Free (ticket required) Op. 41 No. 3

Robert Schumann’s highly personal art again provides the theme, with the Elias musicians focusing on his string quartets. At different periods, the composer concentrated on different genres: 1842 was the year he threw himself at chamber music, producing within twelve months all three of his string quartets and several other individual masterpieces.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 The Schumann String Quartet Series is made possible with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Voiceworks Elias String Quartet Igor Levit © Benjamin Ealovega © Kaupo Kikkas © Robbie Lawrence 54 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Igor Levit: Variations Friday 24 May Saturday 25 May Saturday 25 May 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Igor Levit piano Piatti Quartet Narek Hakhnazaryan Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a Purcell/Britten Chacony in cello waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 G minor Pavel Kolesnikov piano Frederic Rzewski Variations on Mark-Anthony Turnage Quartet Beethoven 7 Variations on ‘Bei ‘The People United’ No. 4 ‘Winter’s Edge’* (UK Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ première) from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Levit presents two sets of Walton String Quartet in A minor WoO. 46; Cello Sonata in A variations, beginning with *Co-commissioned by the Piatti Op. 69 Beethoven’s vast collection String Quartet, Flagey ASBL and Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73; based on a trivial waltz theme Wigmore Hall Träumerei from Kinderscenen by Anton Diabelli, composed Op. 15 No. 7 between 1819 and 1823, followed A co-commission from Wigmore Chopin Introduction and polonaise by the American radical Frederic Hall, Turnage’s new piece was brillante in C Op. 3; Etude in Rzewski’s mighty exemplar (1975) premièred in March at Flagey, C sharp minor Op. 25 No. 7 based on a Chilean revolutionary an arts centre in Brussels, by Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor song, which was conceived as a long-time champions of his music Op. 36 companion piece to the Beethoven. the Piatti Quartet – a group that Approximately 2 hours 25 minutes won multiple prizes at the 2015 A 19th-century programme for the in duration, including an interval Wigmore Hall International String Armenian cellist and the Russian Quartet Competition. pianist that includes two major £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 sonatas, Beethoven’s middle- £16 concs £14 period masterpiece, and Grieg’s sole work for the medium (1883), which includes material from both an earlier funeral march and a wedding march.

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Igor Levit Piatti Quartet Narek Haknazaryan © Robbie Lawrence © Viktor Erik Emanuel © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 55

Robin Tritschler Sunday 26 May Sunday 26 May The Seasons 11.30am 3.00pm A questioning artist who explores deeply and conveys his discoveries Sheku Kanneh-Mason Jacques Imbrailo baritone with eloquence, the Irish tenor has selected The Seasons as the cello Alisdair Hogarth piano Isata Kanneh-Mason theme of his series, a topic he Sibelius From 5 Christmas Songs recently discussed in a Wigmore piano Op. 1: Nu står jul vid snöig Hall Podcast with John Gilhooly. Beethoven 12 Variations in F on port, Det mörknar ute & Giv ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt; Sunday 26 May from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte På verandan vid havet; Norden; 7.30pm Op. 66 Svarta rosor; Säv, säv, susa; Lutosławski Grave Den första kyssen; Lasse liten; (Metamorphoses for cello and Soluppgång; Var det en dröm?; Robin Tritschler tenor piano) Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte Simon Lepper piano Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 Rachmaninov Letter to K.S. Transitional Seasons in D Op. 58 Stanislavsky; Lilacs; How fair this spot; On the Death of a Linnet; Brahms 9 Lieder und Gesänge Two members of the illustrious Christ is risen; To the children; Op. 32; Von waldbekränzter Höhe; Kanneh-Mason family – cellist In the silence of the secret night; Wir wandelten; Schön war, das ich Sheku and his pianist sister Isata Sing not to me, beautiful maiden; dir weihte; Botschaft Wolf Er ist’s; – join forces for Beethoven’s early Spring waters Frage und Antwort; Zitronenfalter but entertaining variations on im April; Der Gärtner; Der Jäger; one of Papageno’s songs from The South African baritone and Lied eines Verliebten; Jägerlied; Mozart’s The Magic Flute (1796), the British pianist and song Verborgenheit; Auftrag; Peregrina Lutosławski’s short but intense specialist select two late-Romantic I; Peregrina II; Nimmersatte Liebe; slow movement (1981), and composers for in-depth scrutiny Begegnung; Zur Warnung; Im Mendelssohn’s Bach-influenced in a pairing that has already won Frühling; Storchenbotschaft Second Sonata of 1842-3. them many plaudits on disc. Two composers in particular £16 concs £14 inc. programme All seats £16 seasons – Brahms in autumn and and coffee/sherry/juice Wolf in spring – offer two very contrasting explorations of love.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Sheku Kanneh-Mason Jacques Imbrailo Robin Tritschler © Lars Borges © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Benjamin Ealovega 56 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Igor Levit: Variations Monday 27 May Monday 27 May Tuesday 28 May 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Kuss Quartet Igor Levit piano L’Arpeggiata Beethoven String Quartet in Stevenson Passacaglia on DSCH Céline Scheen soprano A minor Op. 132 Doron Sherwin cornetto Judith Steenbrink violin Enno Poppe Freizeit (UK première) Himself an exceptional pianist, Francesco Turrisi harpsichord, organ the highly original and politically Josep Maria Martí Duran lute, The Kuss Quartet has established committed British composer baroque guitar a strong reputation for combining Ronald Stevenson died in Christina Pluhar director, theorbo music with literature and drama; 2015 at the age of 87. Written this year will mark the distinctive between 1960 and 1963 and Time Stands Still ensemble’s first complete characteristically ambitious, Dowland Time stands still; Flow Beethoven cycle. Born in 1969, Enno his vast Passacaglia, based on my tears; Sorrow, stay, lend true Poppe is one of Germany’s leading Shostakovich’s musicalisation of repentant tears; I saw my Lady contemporary composers: the Kuss his name in the form DSCH, is weep Johnson Care-charming premièred his miniature Freizeit perhaps the largest single span of sleep; Have you seen the bright lily (Free Time) in Hanover in 2016. piano music ever composed. grow? Bennet Venus’ birds Approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in Brade Scottish Dance Trad/English £16 concs £14 duration, without an interval The Three Ravens; The Tailor and the Mouse; The Oak and the Ash; £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 The Frog and the Mouse Playford Stanes Morris; Parson’s Farewell; Paul’s Steeple; Newcastle; An Italian Rant Purcell Music for a while

L'Arpeggiata has won a wide following for its highly original interpretations, with performances influenced by both improvisation and jazz. Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Kuss Quartet Igor Levit Christina Pluhar © Molina Visuals © Robbie Lawrence © Michal Novak wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 57

Wednesday 29 May Wednesday 29 May Thursday 30 May 11.00am – 4.30pm 7.30pm 1.00pm

RNIB Study Day The Endellion String György Pauk Professional development day Quartet Masterclass for blind, partially sighted and Beethoven String Quartet in F sighted musicians Op. 18 No. 1 The leading Hungarian violinist New short commissioned was the First Prize winner of This practical study day is an works by Sally Beamish, Prach the Paganini and the Jacques opportunity for blind and partially Boondiskulchok, Jonathan Dove Thibaud International Violin sighted musicians to focus on and Giles Swayne in celebration Competitions before settling in career development and explore of the quartet’s 40th Anniversary the UK in 1961. Since his London pathways into the classical Schubert String Quartet in D minor debut at Wigmore Hall in 1962, he music industry. The day will D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ has travelled the world to perform include discussion, talks and the with renowned orchestras and opportunity to perform on the The concert starts with Beethoven’s conductors, boasting a wide, rich Wigmore Hall stage. masterly Op. 18 No. 1, the heartfelt repertoire and several award- For more information and to book slow movement of which was winning recordings to his name. contact Sally-Anne Zimmerman, inspired by Romeo and Juliet. It Now retired from performing, RNIB Music Adviser at ends with Schubert’s ‘Death and he gives masterclasses at [email protected] or the Maiden’, whose intensity and music academies and festivals on 020 7391 2273. lyricism have profoundly touched internationally. Today, György will its listeners from the moment it be working with violin-piano duos and piano trios from London’s Free (application required) was first performed. In between, in celebration of its 40th Anniversary, music colleges. In partnership with RNIB the quartet presents a series of Approximately 3 hours in duration, newly commissioned short pieces. including an interval

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £10 concs £8 Sponsored by Lark Music, Turner Sims Southampton and Brompton’s Auctioneers.

RNIB Study Day The Endellion String Quartet György Pauk © Benjamin Ealovega © Eric Richmond © Jackie Rado 58 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Friday 31 May 7.00pm NB time Jason Moran piano The American jazz pianist, composer and multimedia performer has recorded some 40 albums to date, either as a soloist, as part of his trio The Bandwagon, or as a member of larger ensembles, working in a variety of fields from post-bop to avant-garde jazz, from stride piano to hip-hop. Presenting original compositions and jazz standards, Jason Moran will announce his eclectic programme from the stage.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Jason Moran © Clay Patrick McBride wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 59

Wigmore Lates Thursday 30 May Friday 31 May Saturday 1 June 7.30pm 10.00pm 11.00am – 4.00pm

Hilary Hahn violin Amaan Ali Bangash sarod RNIB Family Day Bach Sonata No. 2 in A minor Ayaan Ali Bangash sarod For blind and partially sighted children BWV1003; Partita No. 3 in E aged 6 – 12 years and their families Jennifer Pike violin BWV1006; Sonata No. 3 in C BWV1005 Bach Partita No. 3 Be inspired by art and music Amjad Ali Khan Sacred Evening at The Wallace Collection and In Bach’s unaccompanied works, (Raga Yaman); By the Moon Wigmore Hall, and create your own Hilary Hahn looks for ‘the core (Raga Behag); Romancing Earth masterpieces in this interactive elements that appeal to me, so that (Raga Pilu); Temple of Hope multi-sensory workshop for blind I can work with that and make it (Raga Kirwani) and partially sighted children and something very personal for me, their families. Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan and hopefully something very For more information and to book Ali Bangash represent the 7th personal for the audience as well.’ contact Sally-Anne Zimmerman, generation of a musical lineage, Approximately 1 hour 45 minutes in RNIB Music Adviser at as sons and disciples of the sarod duration, including an interval [email protected] icon, Amjad Ali Khan. They have or on 020 7391 2273. performed across the globe, from £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Carnegie Hall to WOMAD festivals, and established themselves as Free (application required) a duo, carrying forward their In partnership with RNIB and The musical legacy in sync with both Wallace Collection tradition and contemporary times.

All seats £16

Hilary Hahn Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash RNIB Family Day © Dana van Leeuwen Decca © Suvo Das © James Berry 60 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac Saturday 1 June Sunday 2 June Sunday 2 June 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

Till Fellner piano Daniel Pioro violin Soraya Mafisoprano Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959; Roderick Chadwick piano Catriona Morison mezzo- Piano Sonata in B flat D96 with special guests soprano Charlotte Bonneton viola William Thomas bass Viennese classics including Clare O’Connell cello Graham Johnson piano the works of Schubert feature Biber Passacaglia in G minor prominently in the repertoire from the Mystery Sonatas If Fiordiligi and Dorabella had of the Vienna-born pianist. His Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in been Lieder Singers programme consists of two of the G Op. 96 composer's final sonatas, written Vaughan Williams The Lark Based on the plot of Cosi fan tutte in September of the last year of Ascending (and containing numerous Mozartian his life (1828), and conceived on echoes), Graham Johnson has a grand scale while frequently A performer of many talents, devised a programme of Lieder, intimate in their expression. violinist Daniel Pioro takes on a English songs and duets. The varied programme comprising what interactions between the Neapolitan £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 is perhaps the most searching of sisters, and the manipulative Don Beethoven’s violin sonatas and the Alfonso, progress along Da Ponte's challenging concluding passacaglia lines: Sisters in love - "Bella vita from Biber’s ‘Rosary’ sonatas, militar" - Constancy - Weakening alongside an unusual arrangement - Capitulation and Abandon - of Vaughan Williams’ famous piece Reconciliation. in which he and pianist Roderick Chadwick are joined by two £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 other musicians.

£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Till Fellner Daniel Pioro Graham Johnson © Gabriela Brandenstein © Hugh Carswell © Clive Barda wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 61

Monday 3 June Monday 3 June Tuesday 4 June 1.00pm 7.30pm 10.30am – 1.30pm

Ilya Gringolts violin Doric String Quartet Singing with Friends: Peter Laul piano Jonathan Biss piano Come and Sing Stravinsky Suite italienne; 3 Martinů String Quartet No. 3 For families living with dementia movements from The Firebird Dvořák Piano Quartet in D Op. 23 Suite; Ballade; Divertimento Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor If you are, or someone you know Op. 34 is, living with dementia, join us As Ilya Gringolts’ programme for a session of group singing, reminds us, Stravinsky One of the finest quartets of their exploring a mixture of music old collaborated with violinist Samuel generation, and one enjoying and new, followed by tea and Dushkin on arrangements of the success over a wide repertory, coffee. No previous experience orchestral Divertimento from the Doric renews its collaboration needed, just an enthusiasm to sing! The Fairy’s Kiss, three popular with pianist Jonathan Biss in a movements from The Firebird, and programme including the earlier of Free (ticket required) the Suite italienne using music Dvořák’s two piano quartets, plus Book through the Wigmore Hall from Pulcinella; and Jeanne a rarity it has recorded to acclaim Learning department on Gautier on the Ballade, also from in the form of Martinů’s highly 020 7258 8246 or The Fairy’s Kiss. individual Third Quartet (1929). [email protected]

£16 concs £14 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Wigmore Hall is committed to playing its part in building a dementia-friendly society, and is proud to have 3 Dementia Friends Champions and 44 Dementia Friends on its staff team. To find out more visit dementiafriends.org.uk In partnership with Resonate Arts

Ilya Gringolts Jonathan Biss Come and Sing © Tomasz Trzebiatowski © Benjamin Ealovega © Hope Fitzgerald 62 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

MUSIC FOR LIFE: RESIDENCY

We are delighted to be embarking on a two-year 'The whole of me was in this beauty. There residency in a care setting, in partnership with was so much peace. So much quiet. You are Jewish Care. The residency will be an exciting opportunity for us to continue the development aware of yourself. You feel well. There is a of our pioneering Music for Life programme complete state of wellbeing.' alongside staff, residents and family members Music for Life, member of care staff with activity being organised in response to the needs and ideas of those involved. 'To me, I’ve never seen anything like it before. To me, it is everything.’ Music for Life participant

Music for Life © James Berry wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 63

Tuesday 4 June Wednesday 5 June Thursday 6 June 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Camilla Tilling soprano Maximilian Schmitt tenor Chamber Tots: Paul Rivinius piano Gerold Huber piano Train Ride Jugend Liszt Vergiftet sind meine Interactive music-making sessions Korngold Schneeglöckchen; Lieder; Ihr Auge; Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Über allen for children aged 1 to 5 and their Ständchen; Liebesbriefchen; parents or carers, with songs, Sommer Gipfeln ist Ruh; Der du von dem Himmel bist; Du bist wie eine percussion and the chance to Schoenberg 4 Lieder Op. 2 meet some exciting instruments Mahler From Rückert Lieder: Ich Blume; Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Lorelei up close. Presented by music atmet’ einen linden Duft, Blicke leaders Esther Sheridan and mir nicht in die Lieder, Liebst du Schubert Der Musensohn; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Ganymed; Lucy Drever alongside emerging um Schönheit & Ich bin der Welt chamber ensembles. abhanden gekommen Willkommen und Abschied; Der Zemlinsky Walzer-Gesänge nach Zwerg; Herbst; Der Wanderer an 10.15am – 11.15am (1–2 year-olds) toskanischen Volksliedern Op. 6 den Mond; Wandrers Nachtlied I; 11.45am – 12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) Berg 7 frühe Lieder Wandrers Nachtlied II Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Children £7 Adults £5 Youth is the theme, with (mostly) early songs: Zemlinsky’s from his 27th year, Schoenberg’s from his Equally renowned for his work in 26th. Berg’s were written between concert or recital halls and the the ages of 20 and 23 and opera house, the German tenor Korngold’s between 14 and 16. features several of the finest First Time Booker Offer songs by the protean Liszt. New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

Camilla Tilling Maximilian Schmitt Chamber Tots © Maria Ostlin © Christian Kargl © James Berry 64 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Thursday 6 June 7.30pm

Katya Apekisheva piano

Prokofiev Visions fugitives Op. 22 Schubert 4 Impromptus D899 Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat HXVI:49 Janáček Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Rachmaninov Etude-tableau in A minor Op. 39 No. 6; Etude-tableau in D Op. 39 No. 9

The Russian-born, London-based pianist has built a formidable reputation for her technique and coloristic range. Her programme extends from Viennese classics through to early 20th-century modernism, with the second set of Rachmaninov’s richly Romantic Etudes-Tableaux as its endpoint.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Katya Apekisheva © Sim Canetty-Clarke wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 65

Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School Friday 7 June Friday 7 June 1.00pm – 4.00pm 7.30pm Thursday 6 June Thursday 13 June Nicholas Daniel Cinquecento Thursday 20 June Masterclass Terry Wey countertenor Thursday 27 June Achim Schulz tenor All dates 4.45pm – 6.00pm Tore Tom Denys tenor From the moment he won the BBC Tim Scott Whiteley baritone Young Musician of the Year Award The transformation of the language of Ulfried Staber bass music from tonality to atonality is one in 1980, Nicholas Daniel has tenor the most fascinating and shocking devoted his career to raising the Nicholas Todd manifestations of the modernist profile of his chosen instrument Josquin des Prez and his legacy in every available context. As movement. The common chords Gregorian chant Circumdederunt (triads) that had formed the basis of the creator of many new works for the oboe, he passes on his me; De profundis; Absolve, Western music since the beginning of Domine; Libera me the 17th century no longer held sway in-depth knowledge of its secrets to students from London music Richafort Requiem a6 and a new and strange soundworld des Prez Nymphes, nappés a6; emerged. The father figure of this colleges, ahead of his Oboe Day on 8 June. Faulte d’argent; Stabat mater; musical maelstrom was Arnold Inviolata a5; Nymphes des Schoenberg, who, along with his Approximately 3 hours in duration, bois, or Déploration sur la mort pupils Anton Webern and Alban including an interval d’Ockeghem Berg, represents what is known as Appenzeller Musae Iovis a4 the Second Viennese School and £10 concs £8 a musical style which many music Formed in 2004 and based lovers find rather baffling. in Vienna, the five-member This course led by Roy Stratford vocal group – in company with seeks to explain the circumstances of celebrated tenor Nicholas Todd – the rise of this new style, to explore explores the legacy of an influential the huge differences between the Franco-Flemish composer whose three musicians, and most of all to death in 1521 inspired the Requiem expose some of the music which by his pupil Jean Richafort. is both hugely approachable and emotionally rewarding. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Series ticket price £33

Arnold Schoenberg Nicholas Daniel Cinquecento © Florence Homolka/Schoenberg Archives at USC © Eric Richmond © Theresa Pewal 66 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day At the invitation of John Gilhooly, leading oboist Nicholas Daniel consecrates an entire day to an instrument relatively rarely featured in chamber works but whose contemporary repertoire he has expanded significantly with commissions from leading composers.

Nicholas Daniel © Eric Richmond wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 67

Saturday 8 June Saturday 8 June Saturday 8 June 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Nicholas Daniel oboe Nicholas Daniel oboe Nicholas Daniel oboe Lucy Wakeford harp Julius Drake piano Tom Owen oboe Wigmore Oboe-Fest Guildhall School Wind Kyeong Ham oboe Ensemble Quintet Amy Harman bassoon John Woolrich Array for 10 oboes Schumann 3 Duos from 6 pieces Jacqueline Shave violin Pasculli Omaggio a Bellini for in canonic form Op. 56 Timothy Ridout viola English horn and harp Jolivet Quintette avec Hautbois Spohr Sonata No. 1 in C minor Principal Guy Johnston cello WoO. 23 Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94; Lynda Houghton double bass Beethoven Variations in C on ‘La Abendlied Op. 85 No. 12 (arr. horn ci darem la mano’ from Mozart's Joseph Joachim) Martin Owen Don Giovanni WoO. 28 Haas Suite Op. 17 Alexei Watkins horn Michael Berkeley Second Still Life Maggie Cole harpsichord for oboe and harp A serenade with a vital James MacMillan Intercession for contribution from the oboe (1945) and friends 3 oboes by the versatile French composer Albinoni Concerto for 2 Oboes David Bruce New work for 10 oboes* André Jolivet (1905-74) and Yun 2 movements from Inventionen *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall an attractive Suite (1939) by Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370 the Czech-Jewish Pavel Haas, Zelenka Sonata No. 5 in F for In this morning’s concert, Nicholas killed during the Holocaust, 2 oboes, bassoon and basso will be joined by one of the most form highlights of a programme continuo ZWV181 outstanding harpists of her including some Schumann Mark Simpson Oboe Quartet* generation, Lucy Wakeford, and the arrangements. (world première) Wigmore Oboe-Fest Ensemble, in Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 a programme covering a breadth All seats £16 in F BWV1046 of oboe repertoire, including two *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall works for ten oboes. and Leicester International Music Festival All seats £16 A programme covering three centuries runs from Baroque masters to the music of Isang Yun, who was born in Korea in 1917, later worked in West Germany, and died in 1995, and a new work by 30-year-old Mark Simpson, himself a distinguished woodwind player.

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Other Events in this Series

Friday 7 June 1.00pm – 4.00pm Masterclass with Nicholas Daniel 68 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 12 June 7.30pm Stile Antico Rihab Azar oud Songs of Longing and Exile Programme to include: White Lamentations a5 Dowland In this trembling shadow; Lachrimae Antiquae (Flow my Tears); Lachrimae Antiquae Novae*; Lachrimae Gementes*; Lachrimae Tristes*; Lachrimae Coactae*; Lachrimae Amantis*; Lachrimae Verae* Interspersed with improvised music for oud *with new texts by Peter Oswald

Inspired by Dowland’s melancholic song Flow my Tears, and the heart-breaking stories of refugees which are never far from the news, vocal ensemble Stile Antico and Dartington Arts commissioned poet Peter Oswald to create texts for Dowland’s instrumental Lachrimae pavans. Based on testimonies from today’s refugees and migrants, these new poems about displacement and exile present a contemporary and deeply moving counterpoint to this exquisite music; Dowland was himself no stranger to uncertainty and misfortune during his own, self-imposed exile. Between the pavans, London-based Syrian musician Rihab Azar intersperses partly improvised music for oud.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Rihab Azar wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 69

Sunday 9 June Monday 10 June Monday 10 June 11.30am 1.00pm 7.30pm

Hugo Wolf Quartett Jean Rondeau harpsichord Pavel Haas Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G minor Bach Prelude from Partita in Enno Senft double bass Op. 20 No. 3 C minor BWV997; Fantasia in Boris Giltburg piano Komitas From Armenian folk C minor BWV906 songs: She is slender like a plane Scarlatti Sonatas: in C Kk132, in F Beethoven String Quartet in C tree, Oh Nazan, Echmiadzin Kk6, in F minor Kk185, in D Kk119, Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ dance & Clouds (arr. Sergey in D minor Kk213, in A minor Schubert Piano Quintet in A Aslamazyan) Kk175 & in A Kk208 D667 ‘The Trout’ Janáček String Quartet No. 1 Brahms Chaconne by JS Bach for ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ piano left hand (arr. of Chaconne in The much-admired Czech quartet D minor for solo violin BWV1004) presents two standard repertory Honouring the Austrian composer works: the rigorous final one in their name, the 26-year-old An individualist, whose of Beethoven’s three quartets, ensemble’s programme includes performances have enthralled dedicated to Vienna’s Russian an unusual item in transcriptions international audiences, rounds off ambassador; and what is arguably of Armenian folk music by the a programme of works imagined the most companionable of all priest, musicologist and composer for his instrument with Brahms’s chamber pieces, for which they bring Komitas (1869-1935), also known keyboard arrangement of Bach’s on board two more leading players. as Soghomon Soghomonian, a great D minor violin chaconne. pioneer collector of such material. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £16 concs £14 £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Hugo Wolf Quartett Jean Rondeau Pavel Haas Quartet © Andrej Grilc © Edouard Bressy © Marco Boggreve 70 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Tuesday 11 June Thursday 13 June Thursday 13 June 7.30pm 11.00am and 12.30pm 7.30pm

The English Concert For Crying Out Loud! Angela Hewitt piano Orpheus of Princes Bach English Suite No. 1 in A Hear outstanding performances Handel Overture from Rodrigo BWV806; English Suite No. 2 by musicians from the Royal in A minor BWV807; Suite in Legrenzi Sonata for four violins Academy of Music, in these from La Cetra Op. 10 F minor BWV823; English Suite concerts presented especially No. 3 in G minor BWV808; Corelli Concerto grosso in D for parents or carers and babies Op. 6 No. 1 Prelude and Fugue in A minor under 1 to enjoy together in a BWV894 Vivaldi Concerto in D minor for relaxed and accommodating 2 violins and cello Op. 3 No. 11 environment. Parents-to-be are Angela Hewitt’s programme from L’estro armonico RV565 also warmly welcomed. Scarlatti Introduction from Cain, focuses on three English Suites – overo il primo omicidio Approximately 45 minutes in duration thought to be the earliest of Bach’s Vinaccesi Sonata IV works in the genre, and perhaps Marcello Oboe concerto in C minor Adults £8.50 (babies come free) composed around 1715, though Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for 4 in reality with nothing especially violins Op. 3 No. 10 from L’estro ‘English’ about them – plus another single, fragmentary work armonico RV580 in the same form. An accomplished musician and First Time Booker Offer avid supporter of the arts, Grand New to Family events at £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany Wigmore Hall? Buy your stood as the last in the Medici tickets for half price, either dynasty. He turned Florence into a by phone or in person. centre of excellence, attracting the best musicians from far and wide.

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The English Concert For Crying Out Loud! Angela Hewitt © Oliver Rosser @ Feast Creative © Benjamin Ealovega © Keith Saunders wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 71

Wigmore Lates Friday 14 June Friday 14 June Saturday 15 June 7.00pm NB time 10.00pm 11.00am – 12 noon

Isabelle Faust violin Viktoria Mullova violin Relaxed Concert: Jean-Guihen Queyras Bach Allemande and Double from Bloomsbury Quartet cello Partita No. 1 in B minor for solo This relaxed concert is open Alexander Melnikov violin BWV1002 to everyone and provides a Dai Fujikura line by line piano special opportunity to hear a Bach Largo and Allegro from live performance in an informal Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat Sonata No. 3 in C for solo violin environment. Enjoy an hour’s WoO. 38; Piano Trio in E flat BWV1005 music performed by the Op. 70 No. 2; Variations in E flat Sir George Benjamin 3 Miniatures the Royal on an Original Theme Op. 44; Bloomsbury Quartet, for solo violin Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 Bach Tempo di Borea and Double Fellowship Ensemble for 2018/19. ‘Ghost’ from Partita No. 1 in B minor for solo violin BWV1002 There is a relaxed attitude to noise Three exceptional musicians Misha Mullov-Abbado Brazil and movement, and house lights concentrate on Beethoven, from Bach Siciliano and Presto from will remain up. Audience members his earliest work written for the Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo are welcome to move in and out of piano trio combination, the E flat violin BWV1001 the auditorium as they need to, and piece of 1791, to two mature works Prokofiev Sonata in D for solo there is a designated quiet area. of 1809, plus a set of variations violin Op. 115 sketched in 1792 but not published Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 £5 until twelve years later. in D minor for solo violin BWV1004

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Throughout the varied career of the charismatic violinist, Bach has remained a constant. Here she combines his music for solo violin with similar pieces, including examples by Dai Fujikura, Sir George Benjamin, and her son, as well as Prokofiev’s major sonata (1947).

All seats £16

Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov Viktoria Mullova Bloomsbury Quartet © Marco Borggreve © Henry Fair © Christian Maier Smith 72 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Tuesday 18 June 7.30pm Sergei Babayan piano Chopin Polonaise in C sharp minor Op. 26 No. 1; Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64 No. 2; Barcarolle in F sharp Op. 60; Waltz in B minor Op. 69 No. 2; Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat Op. 61; Impromptu No. 1 in A flat Op. 29; Prelude in A flat Op. 28 No. 17; Waltz in A flat Op. 34 No. 1; Waltz in F Op. 34 No. 3 Chopin Mazurkas: in C sharp minor Op. 6 No. 2, in C sharp minor Op. 63 No 3, in F minor Op. 63 No. 2, in F minor Op. 7 No. 3, in B flat minor Op. 24 No. 4, in B flat Op. 7 No. 1, in G minor Op. 67 No. 2, in C Op. 67 No. 3, in A minor Op. 67 No. 4, in A minor Op. 68 No. 2, in F Op. 68 No. 3, in B flat Op. Posth., in E flat minor Op. 6 No. 4, in A flat Op. 41 No. 4, in C minor Op. 30 No. 1, in B minor Op. 30 No. 2, in B minor Op. 33 No. 4 & in C Op. 56 No. 2

The Armenian-American pianist offers an all-Chopin programme, featuring the characteristically Polish form of the mazurka in the second half and the first consisting of popular individual pieces.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Sergei Babayan © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 73

Fauré/Schumann Project Saturday 15 June Sunday 16 June Saturday 16 June 7.30pm 11.30am 6.00pm

Gerald Finley bass-baritone Heath Quartet Pre-Concert Talk Julius Drake piano Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D Join Steven Isserlis, who will Schubert Meeres Stille; Op. 25 Ravel String Quartet in F talk about Fauré's String Quartet Willkommen und Abschied; An in E minor Op. 121 ahead of the Den Mond; Wandrers Nachtlied evening concert. II; Rastlose Liebe; Die Sterne; Since its formation in 2002, the Der Kreuzzug; Der Winterabend; Heath Quartet has impressed with Approximately 45 minutes in duration Der Wanderer an den Mond; Du its versatility and breadth. Winner bist die Ruh; Gruppe aus dem of the 2015 RPS Young Artists’ £5 Tartarus; Erlkönig Award, it is a regular visitor to Rachmaninov Oh no, I beg you, Wigmore Hall, here offering a forsake me not; Fate; On the contrasting programme of English Death of a Linnet; Christ is risen; and French scores: Britten’s lucid Spring waters first essay in the genre and Ravel’s Mark-Anthony Turnage 3 Animal single, subtle work for the medium. Songs Britten The red cockatoo; She’s £16 concs £14 inc. programme like the swallow; Tit for Tat; and coffee/sherry/juice The Crocodile

The leading baritone and pianist resume their exceptional partnership in a programme covering three major composers, including some rarely heard songs by Britten, notably his early Walter de la Mare settings.

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Gerald Finley Heath Quartet Steven Isserlis © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Kauko Kikkas © Kevin Davis 74 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Fauré/Schumann Project Sunday 16 June Monday 17 June Monday 17 June 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Steven Isserlis cello Nicolas Altstaedt cello Cuarteto Casals Anthony Marwood violin Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G Alban Gerhardt cello BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 5 in Irène Duval violin Shostakovich String Quartet C minor BWV1011 No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Eivind Holtsmark Dutilleux 3 Strophes sur le nom Schubert String Quintet in C Ringstad viola de Sacher D956 Dénes Várjon piano A solo recital by a cellist with What is perhaps the most beloved piano Izabella Simon unusually wide musical sympathies, of all chamber works is made Fauré String Quartet in E minor increasingly active both as a possible by a second cellist joining Op. 121 (arr. Alfred Cortot for conductor as well as artistic with a string quartet to form the piano 4 hands) (London première) administrator, who plays two personnel required by Schubert’s Schumann Gesänge der Frühe classics of the medium, plus a quintet, completed during his final Op. 133; Violin Sonata No. 3 in work commissioned by Mstislav months. The Spanish Cuarteto A minor (arr. Steven Isserlis); Rostropovich to celebrate the 70th Casals – formed in Madrid in 1997, Langsam from Violin Concerto birthday of the renowned conductor but now resident in Barcelona in D minor WoO. 23 (arr. Steven and musical patron, Paul Sacher. – also perform Shostakovich’s Isserlis); Variations on an original autobiographical masterpiece. theme in E flat WoO. 24 ‘Geister £16 concs £14 Variations’ Fauré String Quartet £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 in E minor Op. 121

Arrangements provide unusual fare in the final instalment of the series, giving us not one but two versions of Fauré’s string quartet. In addition, there are rare performances of piano works from Schumann’s final period, his ‘Dawn-Songs’ and ‘Ghost’ Variations.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Steven Isserlis Nicolas Altstaedt Cuarteto Casals © Jean Baptiste Millot © Marco Borggreve © Igor Cat wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 75

Wednesday 19 June 7.00pm NB time Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala Guest of Honour Elly Ameling In recent seasons, Leeds Lieder ‘has fully realised its potential and become an event of international Sir Thomas Allen reader, baritone stature’ (Opera Now), championing song across the Mary Bevan, Ruby Hughes, Kate north of England through thriving education projects, commissioning and presenting the finest song Royal, Carolyn Sampson soprano recitalists. Tonight, a star-studded line up performs Jennifer Johnston, Katarina a Shakespearian programme to secure the financial Karnéus, Ann Murray DBE, stability of the organisation, led by Sir Thomas Allen and Leeds Lieder Director Joseph Middleton, at the mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately invitation of John Gilhooly. James Gilchrist, Nicky Spence, A limited number of best seats, priced at £200, Nick Pritchard, David Webb tenor which include an invitation to a special dinner with Roderick Williams, Marcus the artists, are available exclusively from the Leeds Lieder office on 0113 234 6956 or by email to Farnsworth baritone [email protected] William Thomas bass-baritone Malcolm Martineau, £70 £50 £35 £25 £18 All tickets include a glass of wine Joseph Middleton piano Other Related Events: A Serenade to Music: sonnets by William Shakespeare read by Sir Thomas Allen, woven Friday 7 June 1.00pm around songs by Schubert, Strauss, Brahms, Poulenc, Britten, Bridge, Joseph Horowitz, Dankworth, Tippett Leeds Lieder Young Artists Masterclass and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music

Sir Thomas Allen © Sussie Ahlburg 76 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wigmore Lates Friday 21 June 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra Saint-Saëns Septet in E flat Op. 65 Errollyn Wallen Nnenna (London première) Coleridge-Taylor Nonet in F minor Op. 2

One of the most exciting developments of recent years has been the foundation of Europe’s first majority BME orchestra, whose inaugural concert in 2015 was hailed by The Guardian as ‘culturally inspiring’. Here its programme includes an early work by the English mixed-race composer Samuel Coleridge- Taylor and a new piece by Errollyn Wallen.

All seats £16

Chineke! Orchestra © Eric Richmond wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 77

Tuesday 18 June Tuesday 18 June Thursday 20 June 1.00pm – 4.00pm 6.15pm – 7.05pm 11.00am – 12 noon

Leeds Lieder Young Bechstein Sessions: Schools Concert: Artists Masterclass BirdWorld Glitter Bird Gregor Riddell cello, electronics WRANGLE! Leading Dutch soprano Elly Adam Teixeira drums, percussion Ameling runs a masterclass with Tim Keasley oboe alumni from the Leeds Lieder Jess Mollie percussion, electronics Join us for an informal performance Rosie Bergonzi percussion programme, many of whom have in the Bechstein Bar from London/ gone on to become BBC New Oslo-based duo BirdWorld, who Key Stage 1 Generation Artists and winners of weave between ambient electronic, prestigious awards. contemporary classical, world When the Queen hears the most Approximately 3 hours in duration, music and jazz improvisation, beautiful birdsong in all the world, including an interval creating soundscapes both natural she knows she must have it for and otherworldly. herself. But when Glitter Bird is £10 concs £8 trapped away from all he loves, £5 he forgets how to sing. Come and help us find his voice on this magical journey of empathy and understanding. Join musical story telling trio WRANGLE! for this brand new performance written for Key Stage 1 pupils and their teachers, drawing on over 300 years of music!

Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)

BirdWorld Schools Concert © Benjamin Ealovega 78 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 22 June 7.30pm Franz-Josef Selig bass Gerold Huber piano Loewe Odins Meeresritt; Edward; Herr Oluf; Die nächtliche Heerschau; Erlkönig; Der Pilgrim von St Just; Archibald Douglas Wolf Harfenspieler I-III Stephan Am Abend; Memento vivere Wolf Grenzen der Menschheit; Abendbilder

Marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Carl Loewe, one of the great bass voices of our time explores some of his masterly ballads in a programme that also includes songs by Rudi Stephan (1887-1915), whose promising career ended in wartime action.

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Gerold Huber © Marion Köll

Franz-Josef Selig © Marion Köll wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 79

Alexander Melnikov Thursday 20 June Residency Saturday 22 June 7.30pm With his ability to move between 11.00am – 12 noon different repertoires, and a long-term The Cardinall’s Musick interest in both period instruments CAVATINA Family and historical performance practice, The Company of Heaven III Concert: Thorne Trio Alexander Melnikov has developed Palestrina Missa Ecce ego into one of the most stimulating For ages 5 plus Johannes musicians of our time. Gregorian Chant Propers for Join CAVATINA Chamber Music Nativity of St John the Baptist Friday 21 June Trust for this fun and interactive Palestrina Valde honorandus est 7.00pm NB time introduction to the sounds of the beatus Johannes; Misso Herodes orchestra’s reed instruments. Try spiculatore conducting and take a musical trip Lassus Martini festum Alexander Rudin cello to Scotland and back as we explore celebremus Alexander Melnikov piano the sights and sounds of the oboe, Isaac Angeli, Archangeli clarinet, and bassoon. Rachmaninov Variations on a Victoria Veni sponsa Christi Theme of Chopin Op. 22 Byrd Justorum animae Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Children £10 Adults £12 Praetorius Magnificat quinti toni Op. 65 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, Golovin Elegy renowned for bringing chamber The importance of the liturgical Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in music to young people and young year provides the framework for G minor Op. 19 people to chamber music, is this third instalment of a series delighted to present this concert in in which Andrew Carwood’s Alexander Melnikov is joined by association with Wigmore Hall. leading early-music ensemble a recipient of the State Prize of performs music associated with Russia, cellist Alexander Rudin, the saints – here John the Baptist presenting a programme including is remembered – the angels and Chopin’s 1846 sonata, one of the just. only nine works he wrote for First Time Booker Offer instruments other than the piano, £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 New to Family events at and Rachmaninov’s most famous Wigmore Hall? Buy your piece of chamber music, his tickets for half price, either Op. 19 sonata. by phone or in person.

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The Cardinall’s Musick Alexander Melnikov CAVATINA Family Concert © Benjamin Ealovega © Molina Visuals © Belinda Lawley 80 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Sunday 23 June 7.30pm Matthias Goerne baritone Sir Antonio Pappano piano Shostakovich 4 Romances on Poems by Alexander Pushkin Op. 46 Shostakovich 4 Monologues to Poems by Alexander Pushkin Op. 91 Martin 6 Monologues from Jedermann Mahler Selection of early songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

A leading Lieder singer of our time is partnered by a conductor who is equally one of the great accompanists, and which takes in some of the Austrian late-Romantics as well as Swiss composer Frank Martin’s settings of parts of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Everyman text. Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concert

Wednesday 26 June 7.30pm Matthias Goerne baritone with Alexander Schmalcz piano

Sir Antonio Pappano © Musacchio & Ianniello

Matthias Goerne © Caroline de Bon wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 81

Sunday 23 June Monday 24 June Monday 24 June 11.30am 1.00pm 7.30pm

Andrew Tyson piano Christopher Maltman Ensemble Marsyas Couperin Les baricades baritone Peter Whelan director mistérieuses; Le dodo, ou Graham Johnson piano Mozart Serenade in B flat K361 L’amour au berceau; Le tic-toc- Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 ‘Gran Partita’ choc, ou Les maillotins Wolf Die Nacht; Nachtzauber Mozart Serenade in C minor Messiaen Le Baiser de l’Enfant- Pfitzner Nachts; In Danzig; Das K388 ‘Night Music’ Jésus from Vingt Regards sur Alter; Der Weckruf l’Enfant-Jésus Acclaimed for their historically Liszt Vallée d’Obermann from Leading baritone Christopher based approach and specialising in Années de pèlerinage: première Maltman joins with one of the music from the 18th century, the année, Suisse S160 most expert of accompanists Edinburgh-based wind ensemble Respighi Notturno for a programme of Eichendorff performs an unusually substantial Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in settings, featuring the neglected serenade, probably composed in B minor Op. 58 output of the self-declared 1781, whose third movement found ‘anti-modernist’ Hans Pfitzner fame in the play and filmAmadeus The young American pianist in a selection of songs written where it identifies the moment begins with short character between 1907 and 1921. when Peter Shaffer’s fictionalised pieces from François Couperin’s Salieri first appreciated Mozart’s harpsichord suites, then traverses All seats £16 superior genius. the grand Romantic gestures of Chopin and Liszt to reach Ottorino Approximately 1 hour 45 minutes in Respighi’s atmospheric nocturne duration, including an interval and one of the most intimate movements from Messiaen’s £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 meditative suite.

£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Andrew Tyson Christopher Maltman Peter Whelan © Sophie Zha © Pia Clodi © Jen Owens 82 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Tuesday 25 June 7.00pm NB time Emanuel Ax piano Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone Dover Quartet Emanuel Ax 70th birthday concert Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47; Fantasiestücke Op. 12; Dichterliebe Op. 48; Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44

A celebration of Emanuel Ax’s 70th birthday devoted to Schumann, with Sir Simon Keenlyside singing Dichterliebe and members of the Dover Quartet joining Ax for two favourite chamber works. As a soloist, the pianist himself performs an early set of character pieces. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including two intervals

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Emanuel Ax © Lisa Marie Mazzucco wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 83

Wednesday 26 June Thursday 27 June Friday 28 June 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm NB time

Matthias Goerne baritone La Nuova Musica Alice Sarah Ott piano Alexander Schmalcz Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Nightfall piano David Bates conductor Debussy Suite bergamasque Chopin Nocturne in B flat minor Schubert Der Wanderer D489; Mozart Symphony No. 1 in E flat K16 Op. 9 No. 1; Nocturne in E flat Wehmut; Der Jüngling und Traetta Si diversi sembiante... Op. 9 No. 2; Nocturne in C minor der Tod; Fahrt zum Hades; Giusto amor from Il Siroe; Adagio Op. 48 No. 1; Ballade No. 1 in Schatzgräbers Begehr; Grenzen espressivo from Overture to G minor Op. 23 der Menschheit; Das Heimweh Ifigenia in Tauride; Per pietà Debussy Rêverie D851; Gesänge des Harfners maggior tormento; Pur una Satie Gnossienne No. 1; I-III; Pilgerweise; Des Fischers volta... Chi crederia... Mori, so Gymnopédie No. 1; Gnossienne Liebesglück; Der Winterabend; mori from Armida No. 3 Abendstern; Die Sommernacht; Haydn Symphony No. 6 in D ‘Le Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Der liebliche Stern Matin’ HI:6 Traetta From Ifigenia in Tauride: Important to all Lieder singers, Deh, con qual core amica... So Works by Debussy, Satie and Ravel Schubert’s songs continue to be che Pietà & Ah qual scopre... Che are heard on the German pianist’s central to the artistry of Matthias mai risolvere recent album Nightfall, while the Goerne, whose dedication to three evocative Chopin nocturnes in the first half pursue a similar theme. their exploration is evidenced David Bates’ vital period ensemble in countless performances and includes early symphonies by numerous recordings receiving the Mozart and Haydn while the £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 highest praise. renowned mezzo is the soloist Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in in arias by Tommaso Traetta duration, without an interval (1727-79) – like Gluck, a pioneer of operatic reform. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Matthias Goerne David Bates Alice Sarah Ott © Caroline de Bon © Nick Rutter © Jonas Becker 84 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Evgeny Kissin, widely known as one of the greatest living pianists, is generously donating his performance on this occasion to Save a Child’s Heart (SACH). Save a Child’s Heart is an Israel-based international humanitarian organisation which provides free life-saving heart surgery and Saturday 29 June treatment and a life-time of follow-up care to children from 7.30pm developing countries, regardless of the child’s nationality, religion, colour, gender or financial situation. SACH also creates centres of competence in these countries, offering a comprehensive training program at the Wolfson Medical Evgeny Kissin Centre in Israel for doctors and nurses from developing countries piano and leads surgical and teaching missions to partner countries. SACH was recently awarded the highly coveted 'United Nations Benefit Concert for Save a Child’s Heart Population Award' and is in official relations with the United Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Nations. Furthermore, SACH has been accredited with many Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ other prestigious awards for its remarkable humanitarian work. 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original To date, SACH has saved the lives of more than 4,900 Theme in E flat ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35 children from 57 countries in Africa, South America, Europe, Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 Asia and throughout the Middle East. ‘Tempest’ Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ A limited number of VIP concert seats priced at £250, which include an invitation to join a reception with Evgeny Kissin, are available exclusively from Save a Child’s Heart. Purchase available at 0203 866 5740 or [email protected].

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Evgeny Kissin © F Broede wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 85

Wigmore Lates Friday 28 June Sunday 30 June Monday 1 July 10.00pm 11.30am 1.00pm

Sean Shibe guitar Vision String Quartet Colin Currie Quartet softLOUD Beethoven String Quartet in Joseph Pereira Mallet Quartet Anon Music from the Straloch and A minor Op. 132 Kevin Volans 4 Marimbas Rowallan Manuscripts c.1700 Stockhausen Vibra-Elufa (for solo Maxwell Davies Farewell to Founded in 2012 and based vibraphone) Stromness James MacMillan From in Berlin, the highly individual Steve Reich Drumming Part 1 Galloway (arr. Sean Shibe); Motet Vision String Quartet – whose No. 1 from Since it was the Day members play standing up and Described by The Spectator as of Preparation (arr. Sean Shibe) from memory – is already making ‘the world’s finest and most Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint significant waves throughout the daring percussionist’, Colin Currie for electric guitar and tape Julia musical world with its avowed launched his quartet with a Wolfe LAD (originally for bagpipes, aim of altering how classical concert in Beijing in September arr. Sean Shibe) David Lang Killer music is presented and perceived; 2018 with a similar programme (originally for electric violin, arr. here it offers a major masterpiece to this one, consisting of works Sean Shibe) of the repertoire. by recent or current avant-garde composers. Acoustic and electric, ancient and £16 concs £14 inc. programme modern, traditional and innovative... and coffee/sherry/juice All seats £16 Sean Shibe brings modern classic Electric Counterpoint (Steve Reich) together with mellow, old and new tunes; the driving sound of Julia Wolfe’s LAD (originally for 9 bagpipes) plays against the gentle melancholy of Peter Maxwell Davies’ hugely popular Farewell to Stromness. Join him as he goes electric, fusing ancient ambient Scotland with pulsating modern New York.

All seats £16

Sean Shibe Vision String Quartet Colin Currie Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas © Tim Klöcker 86 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Schubert Cycles Monday 1 July Tuesday 2 July Wednesday 3 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 12.30pm and 2.00pm

Rachel Podger violin, director Ian Bostridge tenor Chamber Tots: Brecon Baroque Lars Vogt piano Rivers and Jungles Marcin Świątkiewicz Schubert Schwanengesang D957 harpsichord Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their Daniele Caminiti lute Together with the German pianist and conductor – a regular parents or carers, with songs, Vivaldi Sonata a4 al Santo collaborator – Ian Bostridge returns percussion and the chance to Sepolcro RV130; Concerto in to a collection of songs the duo meet some exciting instruments G minor for strings RV157; Sinfonia have already toured widely and to up close. Presented by music al Santo Sepolcro RV169; Concerto consistent acclaim, posthumously leaders Esther Sheridan and in D for lute and strings RV93 brought together under the title Lucy Drever alongside emerging Bach Concerto for harpsichord, Swansong by Schubert’s publisher chamber ensembles. strings and continuo BWV972 and containing his last and in (after Vivaldi RV230) a number of instances most 12.30pm – 1.30pm (1–2 year-olds) Vivaldi The Four Seasons Op. 8 famous inspirations. 2.00pm – 3.00pm (3–5 year-olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration, Founded in mid-Wales in 2007 by Children £7 Adults £5 without an interval Baroque violinist Rachel Podger, the ensemble’s programme focuses on sonatas and concertos £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

by Vivaldi plus a work by the Supported by the Season Patrons Italian master arranged by Bach. who have made a major contribution First Time Booker Offer to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series New to Family events at £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Wigmore Hall? Buy your Concert Repeated tickets for half price, either by phone or in person. Thursday 4 July 7.30pm

Rachel Podger Ian Bostridge Chamber Tots © Theresa Pewal © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 87

Schubert Cycles Wednesday 3 July Thursday 4 July Friday 5 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm NB time

Brett Polegato baritone Ian Bostridge tenor Lucas Debargue piano Iain Burnside piano Lars Vogt piano Scarlatti Sonatas A Transatlantic Voyage: English Schubert Schwanengesang D957 Bach Toccata in C minor BWV911 Songs from Here to There Medtner Piano Sonata in F minor Repeat of concert on 2 July Op. 5 Britten Lemady; I was lonely and Approximately 1 hour in duration, forlorn; O Waly, Waly Gurney The without an interval Still only in his late 20s, the scribe Gibbs Silver Robin Holloway French pianist and composer Fare Well Finzi The Birthnight returned to the keyboard Britten Tit for Tat Ireland Sea Fever £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 following a period concentrating Clarke The Seal Man Vaughan on literature. Since coming to Williams The Infinite Shining international attention at the Heavens Willan Drake’s Drum 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition in Vaughan Williams Joy, Shipmate, Joy! Somers Look Down, Fair Moscow, he has won plaudits for Moon Ned Rorem From War Scenes: his highly personal performances Inauguration Ball & Specimen of a carefully selected repertoire. Case Craig Urquhart Among The Multitude Blitzstein Emily (Ballad £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 of the Bombardier) Barber Sure on this Shining Night Duke I ride the great black horses Ives Charlie Rutlage Copland At the river; Zion’s walls; Ching-a-ring chaw

A leading US baritone and an equally distinguished British pianist join in a transatlantic enterprise comprising a true cornucopia of English and American song and covering a multitude of moods.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Brett Polegato Lars Vogt Lucas Debargue © Peter Phoa © Giorgia Bertazzi © Xiomara Bender 88 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 6 July Sunday 7 July 7.30pm 11.30am

Xavier Phillips cello Smetana Trio François-Frédéric Guy piano Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; 12 Variations Op. 11 on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 Maccabaeus WoO. 45; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69; 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte WoO. 46; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; Though its origins go back to 1934, Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 the trio has maintained its unique quality over the decades. It brings Devoting their programme to a single composer, two exceptional a mature and dramatic work by French artists perform almost the entirety of Beethoven’s output Dvořák and a charming early one for cello and piano, demonstrating his range and development over by Beethoven in which the violin is a series of pieces produced between 1796 and 1815. an alternative to the clarinet.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Xavier Phillips Smetana Trio © Caroline Doutre © Martin Kubica wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 89

Sunday 7 July Monday 8 July Monday 8 July 7.30pm 1.00pm 6.00pm

Wihan Quartet Imogen Cooper piano Pre-Concert Talk Suk Meditation on an old Brahms Intermezzo in E flat Conductor Ian Page sets the Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 117 No. 1; Intermezzo in scene for the evening concert. Op. 35a B flat minor Op. 117 No. 2 Dvořák String Quartet in E Op. 80 Liszt Gretchen – 2nd movement £5 Beethoven String Quartet in from A Faust Symphony S513 C sharp minor Op. 131 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Monday 8 July 7.30pm The Wihan Quartet is an In the year she turns 70, the exceptional Czech ensemble, greatly admired English pianist The Mozartists named after a famous exponent devotes her recital to shorter, Ian Page conductor of the music of Dvořák. In this late pieces by Brahms that Louise Alder soprano programme, it performs one of encapsulate his individual style Katy Bircher flute Dvořák’s most personal early at its most concentrated, plus the Oliver Wass harp works alongside an equally moving slow movement from Liszt’s Faust Gavin Edwards horn piece (1914) by his pupil and Symphony in the composer’s Mozart Symphony No. 1 in E flat son-in-law, Suk, whose theme has transcription. K16; O temerario Arbace... Per quel long held special resonance for the paterno amplesso K79; Concerto Czech people. £16 concs £14 in C for flute and harp K299; Se iI padre perdei from Idomeneo; Horn £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Concerto No. 4 in E flat K495; Bella mia fiamma... Resta, o cara K528; Symphony No. 10 in G K74

The Mozartists present a fascinating survey of Mozart’s travels across Europe, featuring two of his finest early symphonies, two of his most popular concertos and arias sung by award-winning soprano Louise Alder.

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Free concert tickets for young people and school groups Wigmore Hall and CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust have been offering free tickets to young people since 1999. This year we are delighted to offer over 2,000 free tickets to young people aged 8 – 25 and school groups, as well as free pre-concert workshops for schools. Visit wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone or check our Learning brochure for forthcoming concert dates. Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust

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Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Since he gave the first ever solo harpsichord recital at the Proms Wednesday 10 July in 2011, the Iranian-American has brought his chosen instrument 7.30pm to a new level of international prominence, his exuberant personality enabling him to engage with audiences throughout a Benjamin Beilman violin repertoire he is determined to expand but which retains the works of Johann Sebastian Bach as its focal point. Louis Schwizgebel piano Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat K454 Tuesday 9 July Poulenc Violin Sonata 7.30pm Mozart Violin Sonata in D K306 Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata No. 1 in Mahan Esfahani harpsichord D minor Op. 75

Bach Sonata in D BWV963; Aria variata BWV989; Fantasia and Two musicians who regularly Fugue in A minor BWV944; Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 play together feature two French sonatas. Dedicated to the poet, A varied programme comprising a suite, a fantasia and fugue – the playwright and musician Federico former merely a sequence of chords for improvisation – plus two García Lorca, murdered in 1936 early works: a sonata composed around 1704 and ‘an air with during the Spanish Civil War, variations in the Italian style’ dating around 1709. Poulenc’s elegiac piece was composed in 1942-3, Saint-Saëns’ £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 stormy work in 1885.

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Thursday 11 July 7.30pm Max Emanuel Cenčić countertenor Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu Franck-Emmanuel Comte director, harpsichord

Orlando Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings RV156; Sol da te mio dolce amore from Orlando furioso Handel Fammi combattere from Orlando Porpora Sinfonia da camera in E minor Op. 2 No. 5; Ombre amene from Angelica e Medoro Handel Venti turbini from Rinaldo; Gia l’ebro mio ciglio from Orlando Vivaldi Sorge l’irato nembo from Orlando furioso; Concerto in D for flute and strings Op. 10 No. 3 ‘Il gardellino’ Handel Cielo! se tu il consenti from Orlando Vivaldi Nel profondo, cieco mondo from Orlando furioso

The fictionalised historical figure of the Carolingian knight Roland (or Orlando) inspired innumerable Baroque operas, sampled here by the Croatian star countertenor alongside his period-instrument colleagues and with a handful of instrumental interludes.

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Wigmore Lates Thursday 11 July Friday 12 July Friday 12 July 6.00pm 7.00pm NB time 10.00pm

Pre-Concert Talk Silesian String Quartet Adam Walker flute Szymanowski String Quartet Sean Shibe guitar The Chief Executive of the Royal No. 2 Op. 56 Philharmonic Society, James Piazzolla Histoire du Tango Bacewicz String Quartet No. 4 Debussy Syrinx Murphy, interviews conductor and Stravinsky 3 Pieces for string musicologist Jane Glover about Takemitsu Toward the Sea quartet Poulenc Sarabande her recent book Handel in London: Schumann String Quartet in A The Making of a Genius. Shankar L'Aube enchantée, sur le Op. 41 No. 3 Raga ‘Todi’ Approximately 45 minutes in duration The members of the Silesian An ambassador for the flute with £5 String Quartet are graduates of a ferocious appetite for repertoire, the Karol Szymanowski Academy Adam Walker is joined by the of Music in Katowice and have acclaimed Scottish guitarist Sean premièred more than 100 works, Shibe for Piazolla’s most famous many of them Polish. Here they work Histoire du Tango, as well champion Szymanowski’s partly as works by Takemitsu, Debussy, folk-influenced Second Quartet Poulenc and Shankar. (1927) and Grażyna Bacewicz’s neoclassical Fourth (1942). All seats £16

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Tuesday 16 July Mozart and the 2nd 7.30pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Viennese School Mozart Piano Sonata in F K280 Vienna has been home to several musical traditions. In this Herschkowitz Klavierstück in 4 Sätzen series, the magisterial Russian pianist, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310; brings together music by Mozart – who made the Austrian Piano Sonata in E flat K282 capital his home for the last nine years of his life – with works Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 by the school founded there by Arnold Schoenberg, whose Mozart Piano Sonata in D K284 impact on the course of musical history would be profound.

Alongside four Mozart sonatas, this instalment includes Berg’s sole mature work for solo piano, designated his Op. 1, a major and emotionally highly expressive one-movement piece on which he worked during his studies with Schoenberg and published in 1910, and Romanian-born Philip Herschkowitz’s four-movement keyboard work, composed in 1969.

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Elisabeth Leonskaja © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 95

Vox Luminis Residency Founded in 2004 by musician Sunday 14 July Sunday 14 July and conductor Lionel Meunier, the 11.30am 7.30pm Belgian vocal ensemble has acquired an international reputation for its Maxim Bernard piano Django Bates Belovèd specialist programming realised to a standard that sets it at the forefront Chopin in all his states Django Bates piano of today’s choral groups, drawing Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in Petter Eldh double bass on rigorous historical research to B minor Op. 58; Impromptu No. 2 Peter Bruun drums achieve music-making of prodigious in F sharp Op. 36; Mazurka in Evan Parker saxophone vitality and creative imagination. C Op. 67 No. 3; Mazurka in D Op. 33 No. 2; Mazurka in A double celebration: Evan Saturday 13 July C sharp minor Op. 41 No. 1; Parker’s 75th birthday and 7.30pm Polonaise in B flat Op. 71 No. 2; a look ahead to next year’s Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; 100th anniversary of Charlie Ballade No. 3 in A flat Op. 47 Vox Luminis Parker’s birth. Two revolutionary saxophonists meet under the Lionel Meunier artistic A protégé of the legendary director musical microscope of Django Menahem Pressler, Canadian pianist Bates’ Belovèd, his piano trio with Bach Motets: Der Geist hilft unser Maxim Bernard takes a wide- Petter Eldh on bass and Peter Schwachheit auf BWV226; Ich ranging look at Chopin’s oeuvre, Bruun at the drums. Following lasse dich nicht BWV159a; Jesu, including works in several forms, their much-praised 2018 visit to meine Freude BWV227; Fürchte large and small, and setting off with Wigmore Hall, Belovèd return to dich nicht BWV228; Komm, Jesu, his final and most taxing sonata. present Django’s highly detailed Komm! BWV229; Singet dem arrangements of Charlie Parker Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 £16 concs £14 inc. programme compositions with interludes from and coffee/sherry/juice master improviser Evan Parker. Bach’s motets are some of the most challenging and exciting works of £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 their kind. In between the individual items organist Bart Jacobs will provide short interludes to take both performers and audience to the key of the next piece.

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Monday 15 July Wednesday 17 July Wednesday 17 July 1.00pm 5.30pm – 6.15pm 7.30pm

István Várdai cello Bloomsbury Quartet Alexi Kenney violin Sunwook Kim piano Eva de Vries violin Orion Weiss piano Janell Yeo violin Falla 7 canciones populares Rachel Maxey viola Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E españolas (for cello and piano) Felicity Smith cello BWV1016 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in Paul Wiancko New work for solo A minor D821 The Royal Academy of Music/ violin Kodály Hungarian Rondo Wigmore Hall Fellowship Schubert Violin Sonata Ensemble, Bloomsbury Quartet, (Sonatina) in A minor D385 Enjoying a full-scale international performs a range of repertoire Stravinsky Airs du Rossignol & career, the Hungarian cellist has including the world première of a Marche Chinoise won numerous major prizes. In new work by the Rosie Johnson Dowland Lute Song (arr. Alexi his programme with the Korean RPS Wigmore Hall Apprentice Kenney) pianist he includes a 1917 work by Composer 2018/19, Daniel Fardon. Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 his compatriot Zoltán Kodály plus Schubert’s sonata (1824) written Free (ticket required) The young American violinist with for a now obsolete instrument. a burgeoning reputation includes a new work by the cellist and £16 concs £14 composer Paul Wiancko, himself an admired jazz musician as well as classical performer, plus his own arrangement of a song by Elizabethan lutenist John Dowland.

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István Várdai Bloomsbury Quartet Alexi Kenney © Balazs Borocz © Christian Maier Smith © Yang Bao wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 97

Thursday 18 July Thursday 18 July Friday 19 July 3.00pm 7.30pm 7.00pm NB time

Music for the Moment Werner Güra tenor Kian Soltani cello Christoph Berner piano Aaron Pilsan piano If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please Schubert Der blinde Knabe; Im Debussy Cello Sonata join us for this informal afternoon Walde D834; Auf der Bruck (Auf ProkofievCello Sonata in C Op. 119 concert with musicians from the der Brücke); Das Heimweh D851; Shostakovich Cello Sonata in Royal Academy of Music. You are Fülle der Liebe; Wiedersehn; D minor Op. 40 warmly invited to join us for tea Abendlied für die Entfernte; Chopin Introduction and polonaise and coffee from 2.30pm in the Alinde; An mein Herz; Sehnsucht brillante in C Op. 3 Bechstein Room. D879; Im Freien; Im Frühling; Lebensmut; Um Mitternacht Both from the Austrian state of Free (ticket required) Vorarlberg, a cellist of Iranian In his lifetime, Schubert wrote descent and a pianist with a Wigmore Hall is committed to more than 600 completed songs, Romanian background offer playing its part in building a starting in his mid-teens. In this Shostakovich’s dramatic First dementia-friendly society, and is concert, German tenor Werner Güra Sonata of 1934 and a brilliant proud to have 3 Dementia Friends joins forces with Austrian pianist early work of Chopin’s in a form Champions and 44 Dementia Christoph Berner in a programme that held specific nationalist Friends on its staff team. To find out covering songs in a three year resonances for him. more visit dementiafriends.org.uk period from 1825, towards the end In partnership with Resonate Arts of the composer’s life. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 and the Royal Academy of Music £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Wigmore Lates Friday 19 July Saturday 20 July Saturday 20 July 10.00pm 10.00am – 3.30pm 7.30pm

Susan Bullock soprano Come and Sing: Ronald Brautigam fortepiano Richard Sisson piano Sounds of America Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33; Songs my father taught me Join choral leader Charles Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat Arlen I’ve Got the World on a String MacDougall for a day exploring Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata Rodgers & Hammerstein Hello some of the greatest vocal No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 Young Lovers works by American composers ‘Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 21 in Rodgers & Hart My Funny Valentine including George Gershwin and C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ David Shire What about today? Leonard Bernstein. Kern Bill; All the Things You Are A musician dedicated to the music Arlen One for my baby £25 concs £20 of Beethoven, the Dutch pianist T Wolf The Ballad of the Sad has become a leading adherent of Young Men historical instruments. While his Gershwin ‘S Wonderful; Someone approach has surprised as well as To Watch Over Me delighted listeners, he insists that Burt Bacharach A House is not he plays ‘what Beethoven writes, a Home nothing more, nothing less’. M Rodgers & Stephen Sondheim The Boy From… £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Stephen Sondheim Losing my Mind

One of the world’s leading sopranos makes a late-night selection from the Great American Songbook, ranging through classics from the 1920s and 1930s to modern masters Burt Bacharach and Stephen Sondheim.

All seats £16

Susan Bullock Come and Sing Ronald Brautigam © Christina Raphaelle © Benjamin Ealovega © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 99

Brahms Plus Series Sunday 21 July Hailed by Schumann as a genius when he was just 20 years old, 11.30am Brahms is incontrovertibly one of the great figures of 19th-century music, a composer of unusual consistency who applied a conservative Calidore String Quartet musical language to entirely original ends. This series highlights his work and contrasts it with that of others. Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 127 Sunday 21 July Mendelssohn String Quartet 7.30pm No. 6 in F minor Op. 80

Formed at the Colburn School of Jonathan Plowright piano Music in Los Angeles in 2010, the Brahms Plus Schubert Calidore Quartet is now based in Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ New York, from where it reaches Brahms Waltzes Op. 39; 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119; Piano Sonata out on its international tours No. 1 in C Op. 1 and recordings; its programme comprises two late masterpieces, For many listeners, the British pianist’s recorded Brahms series including Mendelssohn’s provides benchmark interpretations. Once again, he explores the impassioned work written in great German Romantic in three widely different modes: those of the wake of the death of his his heroic first sonata, his final set of piano miniatures, and his beloved sister. enchanting waltzes.

£16 concs £14 inc. programme £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 and coffee/sherry/juice

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Wednesday 24 July 7.30pm Mark Padmore tenor Paul Lewis piano Brahms Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze; Sommerabend; Es schauen die Blumen; Meerfahrt; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht Mahler Rückert Lieder Schumann Dichterliebe

The German poet Heinrich Heine provides the beginning and end of this programme by two formidable musicians, beginning with a selection of Brahms’s Heine settings and ending with Schumann’s famous cycle in a ‘historically correct version’ (with four additional songs).

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Dame Sarah Connolly Residency Monday 22 July Tuesday 23 July Thursday 25 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Lana Trotovsek violin Dame Sarah Connolly Kit Armstrong piano Maria Canyigueral piano mezzo-soprano Mozart Suite in C K399 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 2 in Malcolm Martineau piano Bach Chorale Preludes: A Op. 12 Schumann 6 Gedichte von N Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV654, Der Tag, der ist so Škerjanc Intermezzo romantique Lenau und Requiem Op. 90 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in Mahler Kindertotenlieder freudenreich BWV605, Erbarm F minor Op. 80 Bridge Day after Day; Speak to dich mein, o Herre Gott BWV721, Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor me my love Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in Britten Winter Words Op. 52 BWV715 & Jesus Christus, unser G Op. 96 Heiland BWV666 Mozart Fantasia in F minor for Recently seen as Fricka in the mechanical organ K608 Born in Slovenia but based in Ring cycle at the Bayreuth and Byrd Sellenger’s Round; Prelude, London, the increasingly prominent the Royal Opera House, as well Pavan and Galliard (Sir William violinist and her Spanish-Catalan as in the title role of Handel’s Petre); The Bells pianist partner take on four Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, Mozart Piano Sonata in A K331 major sonatas from the 19th- and Dame Sarah possesses an equally 20th-century repertoires, plus a distinguished career in the world’s rediscovered work (1934) by the leading concert and recital halls. The young British-American Slovenian late-Romantic Lucijan pianist and composer selects a programme of music by Mozart Marija Škerjanc. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 and earlier composers, much of it – unusually – conceived for organ, £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 mechanical organ, or harpsichord. Supported by an anonymous donor £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by an anonymous donor

Lana Trotovsek and Maria Canyigueral Dame Sarah Connolly Kit Armstrong © Boris Bizjak © Jan Capinski © Neda Navae

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Mozart Missa brevis in F K192; Missa brevis in D K194; Church Sonata in C Mozart in Salzburg K328; Church Sonata in A K225; Ave verum corpus K618 Saturday 27 July 7.30pm Haydn Offertorium ‘Non nobis, Domine’; Alleluia from O coelitum beati; Adagio from Keyboard Concerto No. 8 in C HXVIII:8; Te Deum in C HXXIIIc:1 Le Concert Spirituel Michael Haydn Sub tuum praesidium in C; Ave Verum Corpus

Hervé Niquet director The founder-director of one of Europe’s most durable and expert period-instrument ensembles leads a programme that simulates the musical experience of the mass in the time of Mozart and Haydn.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Le Concert Spirituel © Guy Vivien wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 103

Last concert of the season Friday 26 July Sunday 28 July 7.30pm 11.30am

Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone Chiaroscuro Quartet Howard McGill woodwind Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Gordon Campbell trombone Schubert String Quartet in D minor Richard Pryce double bass D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Matthew Regan piano Playing on gut strings and drums Mike Smith with historical bows, the four Blue Skies: Songlines to American Music Chiaroscuro musicians – who Berlin Isn’t this a lovely day? Kálmán Lichtreklamen (first verse came together in 2005 – bring only) Weill Johnny Johnson’s Song Kálmán Cowboy Song their individual and multi-national Weill Song of the bigshot Ory Muskrat Ramble Weill Lonely talents to two masterpieces of House Rodgers & Hammerstein Soliloquy Ellington Mood Indigo the Viennese classical tradition, Berlin Call me up some rainy afternoon Kern Let’s begin Beethoven’s impassioned example Strayhorn Lush Life Lerner & Loewe On the street where you (1801) and Schubert’s sombre, live Carmichael Stardust Gershwin Our love is here to stay song-based masterpiece (1824). Porter What is this thing called love? Martin & Blane The Girl next door Porter So in love Ellington Do Nothin’ till You Hear £16 concs £14 inc. programme from Me Kern She didn’t say yes and coffee/sherry/juice

The favourite baritone, joined by five British jazz musicians, unlocks the energy and heart of songs from American musicals and popular standards by both visiting and native composers.

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Wigmore Hall stands as a major Friday 12 April 7.30pm supporter of contemporary Nash Ensemble chamber music and song, Stefan Asbury conductor and as a commissioner of Claire Booth soprano new works and a champion Simone Leona Hueber reciter Lawrence Power viola of living composers. The Hall Adrian Brendel cello is determined to bring fresh Ursula Leveaux bassoon creative energy to the repertoire, Lucy Wakeford harp not least through its extensive Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Carter, commissioning programme and Knussen promotion of world, UK and London premières. Sunday 14 April 3.00pm Gavan Ring baritone ‘Our commissioning scheme Simon Lepper piano is already the most extensive Seóirse Bodley in Europe for chamber music,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director, Monday 15 April 1.00pm John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years Tabea Zimmermann viola Adam Walker flute Wigmore Hall has become one of Agnès Clément harp the world’s foremost centres for Sofia Gubaidulina contemporary chamber music.’ Saturday 20 April 7.30pm Trio Mediæval Sungji Hong, Andrew Smith, Thursday 4 April 7.30pm Gavin Bryars Matthew Rose bass Tom Poster piano Saturday 27 April 7.30pm Tom Poster Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Reto Bieri clarinet Saturday 6 April 1.00pm and 7.30pm Polina Leschenko piano JACK Quartet Paul Schoenfield Carter

Music Series Tuesday 30 April 7.30pm Tuesday 9 April 7.30pm Marcus Farnsworth baritone The Chamber Music Society of James Baillieu piano Contemporary Contemporary Lincoln Center John Casken Brett Dean Saturday 4 May 10.30am, Wednesday 10 April 7.30pm 2.00pm and 7.30pm Escher String Quartet In Focus: Sir George Benjamin Andrew Norman Sir George Benjamin

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Monday 6 May 1.00pm Wednesday 29 May 7.30pm Wednesday 19 June 7.00pm The King’s Singers The Endellion String Quartet Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala Alexander Levine, Tormis, Tučapský Sally Beamish, Prach Joseph Horowitz, Dankworth Boondiskulchok, Jonathan Dove, Monday 13 May 7.30pm Giles Swayne Friday 21 June 10.00pm Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Chineke! Orchestra Roland Pöntinen piano Saturday 8 June 11.30am Errollyn Wallen Staffan Storm, Berio, Salvatore Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day Sciarrino, Roland Pöntinen, Nicholas Daniel oboe Friday 28 June 10.00pm Jan Lundgren Lucy Wakeford harp Sean Shibe guitar Wigmore Oboe-Fest Ensemble Maxwell Davies, James MacMillan, Saturday 18 May 7.30pm John Woolrich, Michael Berkeley, Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe, Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano James MacMillan, David Bruce David Lang Dylan Perez piano Ned Rorem Saturday 8 June 7.30pm Monday 1 July 1.00pm Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day Colin Currie percussion Thursday 23 May 7.30pm Nicholas Daniel oboe Joseph Pereira, Kevin Volans, Elias String Quartet Tom Owen oboe Stockhausen, Steve Reich Kyeong Ham oboe RNCM composition Amy Harman bassoon Wednesday 3 July 7.30pm competition winner Jacqueline Shave violin Brett Polegato baritone Timothy Ridout viola Iain Burnside piano Friday 24 May 7.30pm Guy Johnston cello Robin Holloway, Ned Rorem, Igor Levit piano Martin Owen horn Craig Urquhart Frederic Rzewski Maggie Cole harpsichord and friends Friday 12 July 10.00pm Mark Simpson Saturday 25 May 1.00pm Adam Walker flute Piatti Quartet Sean Shibe guitar Friday 14 June 10.00pm Mark-Anthony Turnage Shankar Viktoria Mullova violin

Monday 27 May 1.00pm Dai Fujikura, Sir George Wednesday 17 July 7.30pm Benjamin, Misha Mullov-Abbado Kuss Quartet Alexi Kenney violin Orion Weiss piano Enno Poppe Saturday 15 June 7.30pm Paul Wiancko Gerald Finley bass-baritone Monday 27 May 7.30pm Julius Drake piano Friday 19 July 10.00pm Igor Levit piano Mark-Anthony Turnage Susan Bullock soprano Stevenson Richard Sisson piano Monday 17 June 1.00pm David Shire, Burt Bacharach, Nicolas Altstaedt cello M Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim Dutilleux

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Transport Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines). Make a night of it Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street. Our restaurant is the perfect place to start your evening. Join us for a quick bite to eat or even Car Parking a three course dinner. There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five- minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office for further details. The Wigmore Hall Restaurant and Bar is open for lunch Disabled Access and Facilities through to dinner every day of the week. Full details from 020 7935 2141 or Whether you are organising a gathering for friends and [email protected] family before enjoying a performance, or simply stopping for lunch away from the hustle and bustle of nearby Oxford Street, our Restaurant offers the perfect setting.

For private entertaining such as personal celebrations, Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Charter business lunches and events, the Wigmore Hall Restaurant Mark from Attitude is Everything and Bechstein Room are available for hire, with a full range of catering options.

For opening times and more information, This brochure is available in alternative formats. visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk If this would be of assistance to you, please email or for table reservations and event enquiries, [email protected] or call 020 7935 2141. email [email protected] Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. Supporting Wigmore Hall

With over £1.8 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend or making a donation towards our Artistic Series or Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email [email protected] for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes:

Royal Patron Dr C Endersby and Prof. D Cowan OBE Donald Campbell Simon Majaro MBE HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Dr M T A Evans A bequest from the late Peter Canter The Marchus Trust‡ Felicity Fairbairn* Cavatina Chamber Music TrustL Selina and David Marks*L Honorary Patrons Deborah Finkler and Lord and Lady Chadlington* Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Aubrey Adams OBE Allan Murray-Jones Charities Advisory TrustL Michael and Lynne McGowan* André and Rosalie Hoffmann Mervion Kirwood Mary and Robert Childs Colin Menzies Kohn Foundation Alan Sainer Colin Clark George MeyerL Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Professor Christopher Thompson Sheila Clarke* Michael Watson Charitable TrustL Marina Vaizey* Sonia and Harvey Cole Daryl and Diane Miller Director’s Circle Anne and David Weizmann John Crisp* Milton Damerel TrustL Aubrey Adams OBE* and several anonymous donors Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* The Monument Trust Tony and Marion Allen* Michael and Felicia Crystal* Amyas and Louise Morse* Karl Otto Bonnier* String Quartet Circle Celia and Andrew Curran The Eldering/Goecke Family The Harbour FoundationL Geoffrey Barnett Anthony Davis* Valerie O’ConnorL Fondation Hoffmann‡ Gwen and Stanley Burnton In Memory of Margaret Dewhirst Paxos Festival Trust Hamish Parker Dr Jennifer Jones James Dooley Peter Outen Victoria and Simon RobeyL C Lillywhite and B Jasper The Dorset Foundation – Gifts in Memory of Jackie Rosenfeld OBEL Alison and Antony Milford in memory of Harry M Weinrebe Jean Beresford Rogers William and Alex de WintonL Marina Vaizey* The du Plessis Family Foundation Isabel and Jonathan Popper and several anonymous donors Mrs. David Dugdale Nick and Claire Prettejohn* Piano Circle † Season Patrons 2018/19 Dunard Fund The Radcliffe Trust Aubrey Adams OBE* In memory of Robert Easton Charles Rose* Aubrey Adams OBE* Mrs Arline Blass Douglas and Janette Eden Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* Tony and Marion Allen* Philip and Susan Feakin The Eldering/Goecke Family The Rubinstein Circle American Friends of Wigmore Hall Charles Green Annette Ellis* S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3L Karl Otto Bonnier* Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Vernon and Hazel Ellis* The Sampimon TrustL Henry and Suzanne Davis Voices at Wigmore The Elton Family Louise Scheuer The Harbour Foundation The Emmanuel Kaye FoundationL Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Geoffrey Barnett Katie Bradford The Fidelio Charitable Trust Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Pauline and Ian Howat* Patricia and Jeffrey Fine Voluntary Settlement Valerie O’Connor Michael Brind Pauline Del Mar In Memory of Peter Flatter Serena Simmons and Hamish Parker John and Amy Ford Michael Thomas* Victoria and Simon Robey Richard Dorment CBE † Alan and Joanna Gemes* The Foyle Foundation Rhona Shaw David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma* Neil and Deborah Franks* Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Benjamin Hargreaves Dame Felicity Lott Friends of Wigmore Hall Jo and Barry Slavin Julia Schottlander* Michael Freegard The Estate of N S L Smart Jonathan Stone Anne and Brian Mace Julia MacRae* Jonathan Gaisman* Sir Martin and Lady Smith* William and Alex de Winton The Garfield Weston Foundation Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* and several anonymous donors Roy and Celia Palmer L Gift to honour Rick Rogers John Gilhooly Spencer Hart Charitable Trust Season Benefactors 2018/19 Gerry Wakelin* John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Susan Ward Nicholas and Judith Goodison* In memory of Colin Steele Mark Echlin and Victoria Gath David Evan Williams Peter Goodwin Gill and Keith Stella* Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* Lord and Lady Lloyd and an anonymous donor ‡L Edith Randall The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Lord and Lady Stirrup* The Tertis Foundation Corporate Supporters The Harold Hyam Wingate Anne and Paul Swain* Capital Group FoundationL Coen Teulings Kathleen Verelst* L Philip and Emeline Winston* (corporate matched giving) Malcolm Herring* The Tertis Foundation Complete Coffee Ltd Nicholas Hodgson The Three Monkies TrustL Beethoven Circle 2018/19 The Howard de Walden Estate Graham and Amanda Hutton* Robin Vousden* Aubrey Adams OBE* Martin Randall Travel Ltd Simone Hyman* Andrew and Hilary Walker* Tony and Marion Allen* Steinway & Sons Independent Opera at Sadlers Wells David and Margaret Walker* Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair In memory of Cherry Johnson Professor Janet Walker CD and Clive Butler Donors and Sponsors Marc Jourdren* Professor Doug Jones AO* Nicola Coldstream Mr Eric Abraham* In Memory of Donald Kahn Michael and Rosemary Warburg Pauline del Mar Neville and Nicola Abraham Su and Neil Kaplan* Dame Fanny Waterman* J L Drewitt Ralph and Elizabeth Aldwinckle David and Louise Kaye* Frances and David Waters* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Lady Alexander of Weedon Kohn Foundation David and Martha Winfield* Margery Gray Ian Allan Mr Julian Korn The Wolfson Foundation Pauline and Ian Howat* Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Virginia Lynch American Friends of Wigmore Hall Maryly La Follette* * Rubinstein Circle members Ian and Megan Richardson The Andor Charitable TrustL Gabor Lacko ‡ Contemporary Music Series Jackie Rosenfeld OBE David and Jacqueline Ansell* Mark Le FanuL supporters Jo and Barry Slavin Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ L Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss* † Early Music and Baroque Series In memory of Robert Streit Mrs Arlene Beare The Linbury TrustL supporters Marina Vaizey* Arts Council England Tim Llewellyn L Learning Programme supporters Gerry Wakelin* Alan Bell-Berry The Loveday Charitable TrustL and an anonymous donor Mr Nicholas J Bez Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Details correct as of October 2018 The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust Marianne and Andy Lusher* The Wigmore Hall Trust Early Music and Baroque Circle David and Mary Bowerman* David Lyons* Registered Charity No. 1024838 Geoffrey Barnett John and Julia Boyd* Julia MacRae*L Sandra Carlisle Alan Bradley* The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE JURY John Gilhooly OBE Chairman John Mark Ainsley Iain Burnside Bernarda Fink David Jackson Graham Johnson OBE Dame Felicity Lott The Competition recognises the song tradition as a whole and requires Natalie Murray Beale contestants to perform in at least three languages. At the same time, Thomas Quasthoff it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and Richard Stokes celebrates the Shakespearean stature of Schubert in the genre. Ailish Tynan

Saturday 7 September 11.00am and 2.30pm PRELIMINARY ROUND – DAY 1 All day £16 concs £14 Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers

Sunday 8 September 11.00am and 2.30pm PRELIMINARY ROUND – DAY 2 All day £16 concs £14 Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers Wednesday 11 September 6.00pm FINAL ROUND AND PRIZE-GIVING Monday 9 September 3.00pm and 7.30pm £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 SEMI-FINAL ROUND All day £20 concs £16 Please note that there will be a supper interval from approx. 8.20pm to 9.30pm. Please note that there will be a supper interval from 6.00pm to Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant 7.30pm. Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant to make your supper to make your supper reservation; reservation; advance reservations only. advance reservations only.

Book for the first three days at the same time for £39 concs £33

Photography: Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk/songcompetition The Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity No. 1024838 Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonRCM, HonFGS, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141

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